Re: Linux v2.6.27-rc1: fails to compile

[Frederik Deweerdt <deweerdt@free.fr>]

Hello Grant,
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 08:03:42AM +1000, Grant Coady wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:23:21 -0700 (PDT), Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
> >
> >It's two weeks (and one day), and the merge window is over.
> >
> >Finally. I don't know why, but this one really did feel pretty dang busy. 
> >And the size of the -rc1 patch bears that out - at 12MB, it's about 50% 
> >bigger than 26-rc1 (but not that much bigger than 24/25-rc1, so it's not 
> >like it's anything unheard of).
> 
> Couple machines failed to compile with same error in different place:
> 
>   CC      arch/x86/kernel/acpi/cstate.o
> arch/x86/kernel/acpi/cstate.c: In function `acpi_processor_ffh_cstate_probe':
> arch/x86/kernel/acpi/cstate.c:94: error: invalid lvalue in unary `&'
> make[2]: *** [arch/x86/kernel/acpi/cstate.o] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [arch/x86/kernel/acpi] Error 2
> make: *** [arch/x86/kernel] Error 2
> grant@peetoo:~/linux/linux-2.6.27-rc1a$
> 
This issue has been reported, this is due to your old compiler.
Fix here:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/29/48

Regards,
Frederik