Re: linux-next: build failure

J.R. Mauro
2008-10-20T16:33:59Z

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:04:20PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>> Today's linux-next build (powerpc allyesconfig) failed like this:
>>
>> In file included from drivers/staging/sxg/sxg.c:77:
>> drivers/staging/sxg/sxghif.h:859: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'Compilation'
>> drivers/staging/sxg/sxg.c: In function 'sxg_transmit_packet':
>> drivers/staging/sxg/sxg.c:1949: error: 'SXG_SGL_BUF_SIZE' undeclared (first use in this function)
>> drivers/staging/sxg/sxg.c:1958: error: implicit declaration of function 'SXG_SGL_BUFFER'
>> drivers/staging/sxg/sxg.c:1958: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
>> drivers/staging/sxg/sxg.c: In function 'sxg_mcast_set_mask':
>> drivers/staging/sxg/sxg.c:2846: warning: format '%llx' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 5 has type 'u64'
>>
>> I applied the following patch.
>
> Ah, doh, sorry, I should have caught that. I'll go apply this to the
> tree, thanks.

Greg,

The slicoss driver also from Alacritech looks like it needs a depends
on X86 as well. Should the sxg and slicoss drivers from Alacritech be
doing things like this (sxg/sxghif.h:851, slicoss/slicoss.c:960):

#if defined(CONFIG_X86_64)

...

#else
Stop Compilation;
#endif

>
> greg k-h
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