From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUILD_FAILURE] 2.6.24-git18 build fails section type conflict psmouse-base
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 15:35:16 +1100
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On Friday 08 February 2008 21:48:51 Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 04:02:59PM +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote:
> > 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 
> @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

Erk... This is horrible, and arguably something gcc should try to deal with.  
How about we just drop the const and add a comment, rather than breaking one 
arch at a time?

Thanks,
Rusty.


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