Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 01:13:50 +0200
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dhowells@redhat.com
Subject: frv cmpxchg_local compile error
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Commit 14e0cb3c60b89c4a2512852ffc18601c72314a0f broke frv compilation:

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...
  CC      arch/frv/kernel/asm-offsets.s
In file included from include/asm/system.h:271,
                 from include/asm/bitops.h:19,
                 from include/linux/bitops.h:17,
                 from include/linux/kernel.h:15,
                 from include/linux/sched.h:52,
                 from arch/frv/kernel/asm-offsets.c:7:
include/asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h: In function '__cmpxchg_local_generic':
include/asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h:23: error: implicit declaration of function 'typecheck'
include/asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h:23: error: expected expression before 'unsigned'
include/asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h:23: error: expected expression before 'unsigned'
include/asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h:44: error: expected expression before 'unsigned'
include/asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h: In function '__cmpxchg64_local_generic':
include/asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h:57: error: expected expression before 'unsigned'
include/asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h:57: error: expected expression before 'unsigned'
include/asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h:61: error: expected expression before 'unsigned'
In file included from include/asm/bitops.h:19,
                 from include/linux/bitops.h:17,
                 from include/linux/kernel.h:15,
                 from include/linux/sched.h:52,
                 from arch/frv/kernel/asm-offsets.c:7:
include/asm/system.h: In function '__cmpxchg_local':
include/asm/system.h:279: error: variable or field '__xg_orig' declared void
include/asm/system.h:279: error: variable or field '__xg_test' declared void
include/asm/system.h:279: error: variable or field '__xg_new' declared void
include/asm/system.h:279: error: void value not ignored as it ought to be
make[1]: *** [arch/frv/kernel/asm-offsets.s] Error 1

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An architecture specific patch that breaks the one architecture it 
touches at the first file being compiled is even for kernel standards 
unusually bad...


cu
Adrian

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