Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764137AbXHGMOV (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Aug 2007 08:14:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758148AbXHGMON (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Aug 2007 08:14:13 -0400 Received: from hellhawk.shadowen.org ([80.68.90.175]:4644 "EHLO hellhawk.shadowen.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758099AbXHGMOL (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Aug 2007 08:14:11 -0400 Message-ID: <46B86215.1020902@shadowen.org> Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 13:14:13 +0100 From: Andy Whitcroft User-Agent: Icedove 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061220) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michal Piotrowski CC: Andy Whitcroft , 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> <46B74546.2090501@shadowen.org> In-Reply-To: <46B74546.2090501@shadowen.org> 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: 2705 Lines: 70 Andy Whitcroft wrote: > 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. Confirmed that this patch does indeed fix up my problem machine. Its very ugly but it does work. -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/