Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758803AbYBHMvO (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Feb 2008 07:51:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754273AbYBHMu6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Feb 2008 07:50:58 -0500 Received: from E23SMTP03.au.ibm.com ([202.81.18.172]:51438 "EHLO e23smtp03.au.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752392AbYBHMu5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Feb 2008 07:50:57 -0500 Message-ID: <47AC502C.70809@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:20:52 +0530 From: Kamalesh Babulal User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.14pre (X11/20071023) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adrian Bunk CC: rusty@rustcorp.com.au, LKML , linux-input@vger.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft , Balbir Singh , Ivan Kokshaysky Subject: Re: [BUILD_FAILURE] 2.6.24-git18 build fails section type conflict psmouse-base References: <47AC2FDB.7080104@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20080208104851.GI7198@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> In-Reply-To: <20080208104851.GI7198@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1601 Lines: 45 Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 04:02:59PM +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: >> Hi, >> >> The 2.6.24-git18 kernel build fails on the power machine with following message >> >> drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.c:44: error: __param_proto causes a section type conflict >> drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.c:44: error: __param_proto causes a section type conflict >> make[3]: *** [drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.o] Error 1 >> make[2]: *** [drivers/input/mouse] Error 2 >> make[1]: *** [drivers/input] Error 2 >> make: *** [drivers] Error 2 >> >> this failure was reported earlier http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/22/64 > > You need the patch from [1] manually applied (due to changed context) > and with " || defined(__powerpc__)" added for getting it compiling. > > @Rusty: > Can you look at this issue? It's a modules problem on 3 architectures. > > cu > Adrian > > [1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/27/29 > I tried manually applying the patch and added ||defined(__powerpc__), the above build failure was resolved but it started failing at another place, CC kernel/printk.o kernel/printk.c:568: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘static’ make[1]: *** [kernel/printk.o] Error 1 make: *** [kernel] Error 2 -- Thanks & Regards, Kamalesh Babulal, Linux Technology Center, IBM, ISTL. -- 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/