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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: <trenn@suse.de>, "Adrian Bunk" <bunk@stusta.de>,
	"Sam Ravnborg" <sam@ravnborg.org>, "Jan Dittmer" <jdi@l4x.org>,
	"Len Brown" <lenb@kernel.org>,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	<linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	<linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: scripts/mod/file2alias.c cross compile problem
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 18:36:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jewswdvqpt.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <617E1C2C70743745A92448908E030B2A0211AFF0@scsmsx411.amr.corp.intel.com> (Tony Luck's message of "Thu\, 2 Aug 2007 09\:25\:58 -0700")

"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> writes:

>> +#define FILLUP_LEN	7 /* dirty fix for i386 -> 64bit cross-compilation */
>>  
>>  struct acpi_device_id {
>>  	__u8 id[ACPI_ID_LEN];
>> +	__u8 dummy[FILLUP_LEN];
>>  	kernel_ulong_t driver_data;
>>  };
>
> What's so special about this structure that we get an error?

It's special because it's a device_id structure, and those structures
must come out identical using either the host or the target compiler.

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-02 16:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20070727230741.GD15129@stusta.de>
     [not found] ` <617E1C2C70743745A92448908E030B2A0209BB9D@scsmsx411.amr.corp.intel.com>
2007-07-28  1:39   ` scripts/mod/file2alias.c cross compile problem Adrian Bunk
2007-08-02 15:09     ` Thomas Renninger
2007-08-02 16:25       ` Luck, Tony
2007-08-02 16:36         ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2007-08-02 17:40           ` Luck, Tony
2007-08-02 18:09             ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-08-02 19:15               ` Adrian Bunk
2007-08-02 19:24                 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-08-02 19:39                   ` Al Viro
2007-08-02 22:08         ` Rusty Russell
2007-08-02 23:03           ` Adrian Bunk
2007-08-16 14:27           ` Thomas Renninger
2007-08-16 16:26             ` Luck, Tony
2007-08-16 17:03               ` Thomas Renninger

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