2006-03-02 08:41:42

by Anush Elangovan

Subject: [PATCH] Define BITS_PER_BYTE to fix compilation error in 2.6.15.5

Looks like mm/mempolicy.c requires BITS_PER_BYTE, which is not defined
in 2.6.15.5. Patch below fixes the issue. 2.6.16rc5 seems to have the
#define

Signed-off-by: Anush Elangovan ([email protected])

diff -rup linux-2.6.15.5/include/linux/types.h
linux-2.6.15.5_fix/include/linux/types.h
--- linux-2.6.15.5/include/linux/types.h 2006-03-01
14:37:27.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6.15.5_fix/include/linux/types.h 2006-03-01
23:39:43.000000000 -0800
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
(((bits)+BITS_PER_LONG-1)/BITS_PER_LONG)
#define DECLARE_BITMAP(name,bits) \
unsigned long name[BITS_TO_LONGS(bits)]
+
+#define BITS_PER_BYTE 8
#endif

#include <linux/posix_types.h>

2006-03-02 18:16:29

by Chris Wright

Subject: Re: [PATCH] Define BITS_PER_BYTE to fix compilation error in 2.6.15.5

* Elangovan, Anush ([email protected]) wrote:
>
> Looks like mm/mempolicy.c requires BITS_PER_BYTE, which is not defined in 2.6.15.5. Patch below fixes the issue. 2.6.16rc5 seems to have the #define

Yes, thanks, similar patch is queued.
-chris