Re: linux-2.5.5-pre1

[Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@oracle.com>]

Robert Love wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 18:20, Wayne.Brown@altec.com wrote:
> 
> 
>>So where is it?  I haven't been able to find it at kernel.org yet.
>>
> 
> I'll keep the list in the CC since I see this question on IRC ...
> 
> its in 
> 	/pub/linux/kernel/testing
> not the usual
> 	/pub/linux/kernel/v2.5/testing

More issues:

  - xconfig broken

[asuardi@dolphin linux]$ make xconfig
rm -f include/asm
( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm)
/usr/src/linux/include
make -C scripts kconfig.tk
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.5.5-pre1/scripts'
gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -o tkparse.o tkparse.cgcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -o tkcond.o tkcond.c
gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -o tkgen.o tkgen.c
gcc -o tkparse tkparse.o tkcond.o tkgen.o
cat header.tk >> ./kconfig.tk
./tkparse < ../arch/i386/config.in >> kconfig.tk
sound/Config.in: 22: incorrect argument
make[1]: *** [kconfig.tk] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.5.5-pre1/scripts'
make: *** [xconfig] Error 2



  - rtctimer.c doesn't build due to undefined rtc_task_t

gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.5.5-pre1/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686   -DKBUILD_BASENAME=rtctimer  -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c rtctimer.c
rtctimer.c:75: parse error before "rtc_task"
rtctimer.c:75: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `rtc_task'
rtctimer.c:75: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
rtctimer.c: In function `rtctimer_start':
rtctimer.c:99: `rtc_task_t' undeclared (first use in this function)
rtctimer.c:99: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
rtctimer.c:99: for each function it appears in.)
rtctimer.c:99: `rtc' undeclared (first use in this function)
rtctimer.c:99: invalid lvalue in assignment
rtctimer.c:101: warning: implicit declaration of function `rtc_control'
rtctimer.c: In function `rtctimer_stop':
rtctimer.c:110: `rtc_task_t' undeclared (first use in this function)
rtctimer.c:110: `rtc' undeclared (first use in this function)
rtctimer.c:110: invalid lvalue in assignment
rtctimer.c: In function `rtctimer_interrupt':
rtctimer.c:123: warning: implicit declaration of function `tasklet_hi_schedule'
rtctimer.c: In function `rtctimer_private_free':
rtctimer.c:143: `rtc_task_t' undeclared (first use in this function)
rtctimer.c:143: `rtc' undeclared (first use in this function)
rtctimer.c:143: invalid lvalue in assignment
rtctimer.c:145: warning: implicit declaration of function `rtc_unregister'
rtctimer.c: In function `rtctimer_init':
rtctimer.c:174: warning: implicit declaration of function `tasklet_init'
rtctimer.c:182: request for member `func' in something not a structure or union
rtctimer.c:183: request for member `private_data' in something not a structure or union
rtctimer.c:184: warning: implicit declaration of function `rtc_register'
rtctimer.c: At top level:
rtctimer.c:79: storage size of `rtc_tq' isn't known
make[3]: *** [rtctimer.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.5.5-pre1/sound/core'
make[2]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.5.5-pre1/sound/core'
make[1]: *** [_subdir_core] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.5.5-pre1/sound'
make: *** [_dir_sound] Error 2



  - ramdisk broken (at least as module)

gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.5.5-pre1/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -DMODULE  -DKBUILD_BASENAME=rd  -c -o rd.o rd.c
rd.c: In function `rd_make_request':
rd.c:271: too many arguments to function
make[2]: *** [rd.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.5.5-pre1/drivers/block'
make[1]: *** [_modsubdir_block] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.5.5-pre1/drivers'
make: *** [_mod_drivers] Error 2

--alessandro

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