From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Gordon Farquharson <gordonfarquharson@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linville@tuxdriver.com,
stefano.brivio@polimi.it
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Fix b43 driver build for arm
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:24:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200802182324.45267.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080218221324.GB23181@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
On Monday 18 February 2008 23:13:24 Russell King wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 11:08:56PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > On Monday 18 February 2008 23:03:10 Gordon Farquharson wrote:
> > > The b43 driver in 2.6.25-rc[12] fails to build for arm on an x86_64
> > > box using a cross-compiler:
> > >
> > > FATAL: drivers/net/wireless/b43/b43: sizeof(struct ssb_device_id)=6 is
> > > not a modulo of the size of section __mod_ssb_device_table=64.
> > > Fix definition of struct ssb_device_id in mod_devicetable.h
> >
> > Why does ARM have this special requirement and what is it about?
>
> Because ARM is a 32 bit architecture.
Ehm, I didn't see this warning on any other architecture nor did we
have _any_ problem with it on any other architecture.
This code runs fine on x86_32, x86_64, powerpc and mips, at least.
--
Greetings Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-18 22:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-18 22:03 [RFC] [PATCH] Fix b43 driver build for arm Gordon Farquharson
2008-02-18 22:08 ` Michael Buesch
2008-02-18 22:13 ` Russell King
2008-02-18 22:24 ` Michael Buesch [this message]
2008-02-18 22:34 ` Russell King
2008-02-18 22:43 ` Michael Buesch
2008-02-18 22:50 ` Harvey Harrison
2008-02-18 22:56 ` Michael Buesch
2008-02-18 22:53 ` Russell King
2008-02-18 23:00 ` Russell King
2008-02-18 23:17 ` Michael Buesch
2008-02-18 23:42 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-19 0:01 ` Michael Buesch
2008-02-19 4:59 ` Gordon Farquharson
2008-02-19 10:41 ` Michael Buesch
2008-02-20 0:44 ` Gordon Farquharson
2008-02-20 14:44 ` Michael Buesch
2008-02-20 19:37 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-22 4:24 ` Gordon Farquharson
2008-02-22 12:08 ` Gordon Farquharson
2008-02-22 14:07 ` Michael Buesch
2008-02-23 4:34 ` Gordon Farquharson
2008-02-23 5:51 ` Michael Buesch
2008-02-23 10:14 ` Gordon Farquharson
2008-02-23 15:58 ` Michael Buesch
2008-02-26 14:37 ` Ben Dooks
2008-02-26 16:12 ` Gordon Farquharson
2008-02-19 5:32 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-22 13:13 ` Matthieu CASTET
2008-02-18 23:04 ` Michael Buesch
2008-02-19 8:37 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-02-19 10:34 ` Michael Buesch
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