Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754785AbXHFP7S (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 11:59:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751046AbXHFP7F (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 11:59:05 -0400 Received: from hellhawk.shadowen.org ([80.68.90.175]:3482 "EHLO hellhawk.shadowen.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750836AbXHFP7E (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 11:59:04 -0400 Message-ID: <46B74546.2090501@shadowen.org> Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:59:02 +0100 From: Andy Whitcroft User-Agent: Icedove 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061220) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michal Piotrowski CC: Thomas Renninger , Kay Sievers , Len Brown , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ACPI modpost failure in 2.6.23-rc1-git2 References: <20070806114335.GA31368@shadowen.org> <6bffcb0e0708060453l372e15c2h703ede437b4d8935@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6bffcb0e0708060453l372e15c2h703ede437b4d8935@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2526 Lines: 66 Michal Piotrowski wrote: > Hi Andy, > > On 06/08/07, Andy Whitcroft wrote: >> 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 > > similar to > > Subject : modpost bug breaks ia64 cross compilation > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/27/30 > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/27/418 > Last known good : ? > Submitter : Jan Dittmer > Caused-By : Thomas Renninger > commit 29b71a1ca74491fab9fed09e9d835d840d042690 > Handled-By : ? > Patch : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/2/211 > Status : patch was suggested > > Please try this patch http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/2/211 Will do. That is vile though. It feels like we should be generating this information in the kernel build and extracting it from the built kernel. -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/