Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764001AbXHFLnv (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 07:43:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754811AbXHFLnn (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 07:43:43 -0400 Received: from 41.150.104.212.access.eclipse.net.uk ([212.104.150.41]:39982 "EHLO localhost.localdomain" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753958AbXHFLnn (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 07:43:43 -0400 Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 12:43:35 +0100 From: Andy Whitcroft To: Thomas Renninger , Kay Sievers , Len Brown Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft Subject: ACPI modpost failure in 2.6.23-rc1-git2 Message-ID: <20070806114335.GA31368@shadowen.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1623 Lines: 40 Between 2.6.23-rc1-git1 and 2.6.23-rc1-git2 we started getting the following fatal error during modpost on an x86_64 machine: FATAL: drivers/acpi/video: sizeof(struct acpi_device_id)=20 is not a modulo of the size of section __mod_acpi_device_table=48. Fix definition of struct acpi_device_id in mod_devicetable.h make[1]: *** [__modpost] Error 1 This check seems to have been added as part of the following commit: commit 29b71a1ca74491fab9fed09e9d835d840d042690 Author: Thomas Renninger Date: Mon Jul 23 14:43:51 2007 +0200 ACPI: autoload modules - Create ACPI alias interface Compiler version: Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux/3.4.4/specs Configured with: ../src/configure -v --enable-languages=c,c++,java,f77,pascal,objc,ada,treelang --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/3.4 --enable-shared --with-system-zlib --enable-nls --without-included-gettext --program-suffix=-3.4 --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-libstdcxx-allocator=mt --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-java-gc=boehm --enable-java-awt=gtk --disable-werror i486-linux Thread model: posix gcc version 3.4.4 20050314 (prerelease) (Debian 3.4.3-13sarge1) We are compiling a 64bit kernel on a machine with a pretty old userspace which is 32bit. Let me know if you need more info. -apw - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/