I got the following compile warning in 2.4.22-pre10:
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...
gcc -D__KERNEL__
-I/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.4/linux-2.4.22-pre10-full/include -
Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing
-fno-common -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=k6 -nostdinc -iwithprefix
include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=tipar -c -o tipar.o tipar.c
tipar.c:76:1: warning: "minor" redefined
In file included from
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.4/linux-2.4.22-pre10-full/include/linux/fs.h:16,
from
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.4/linux-2.4.22-pre10-full/include/linux/capability.h:17,
from
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.4/linux-2.4.22-pre10-full/include/linux/binfmts.h:5,
from
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.4/linux-2.4.22-pre10-full/include/linux/sched.h:9,
from tipar.c:49:
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.4/linux-2.4.22-pre10-full/include/linux/kdev_t.h:81:1:
warning: this is the location of the previous definition
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The minor #define was added to kdev_t.h in 2.4.18-pre4. The following
patch adjusts tipar.c accordingly. Besides this, it changes the kernel
version chack from a private macro to use the KERNEL_VERSION in kernel.h.
--- linux-2.4.22-pre10-full/drivers/char/tipar.c.old 2003-08-02 22:52:49.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.4.22-pre10-full/drivers/char/tipar.c 2003-08-02 22:57:57.000000000 +0200
@@ -71,9 +71,11 @@
#define DRIVER_DESC "Device driver for TI/PC parallel link cables"
#define DRIVER_LICENSE "GPL"
-#define VERSION(ver,rel,seq) (((ver)<<16) | ((rel)<<8) | (seq))
-#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < VERSION(2,5,0)
+#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2,4,18)
# define minor(x) MINOR(x)
+#endif
+
+#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2,5,0)
# define need_resched() (current->need_resched)
#endif
I've tested the compilation with 2.4.22-pre10.
Please apply
Adrian
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