Re: x86/non-x86: percpu, node ids, apic ids x86.git fixup

Adrian Bunk
2008-01-31T10:47:20Z

On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 11:33:29AM -0800, Luck, Tony wrote:
> > I'm having trouble replicating this error. With the latest linux-2.6.git
> > plus the patch I just sent, I get the following errors:
> >
> > drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.c:45: error: __param_proto causes a section type conflict
> > drivers/md/md.c:5881: error: __param_start_ro causes a section type conflict
>
> Weird. psmouse-base.c builds ok for me. Perhaps there is a compiler
> version difference? I'm running a rather old 3.4.6 that came with
> my RHEL 4.5 release.
>...

It depends on the compiler version.

And you were in the Cc of Ivan's patch that fixes it... [1]

> -Tony

cu
Adrian

[1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/27/29

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