Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757306AbZFWQp0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:45:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753266AbZFWQpP (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:45:15 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:49328 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756219AbZFWQpO (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:45:14 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:45:05 -0400 From: Kyle McMartin To: Stephen Rothwell Cc: Linus , James Simmons , Sam Ravnborg , LKML , Krzysztof Helt , Geert Uytterhoeven , Andrew Morton , ppc-dev Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] fbdev: work around old compiler bug Message-ID: <20090623164505.GA3101@bombadil.infradead.org> References: <20090622180420.2e0424e4.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20090622183415.46fa786b.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20090623154428.e2f4ddc9.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090623154428.e2f4ddc9.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 884 Lines: 21 On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 03:44:28PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > When building with a 4.1.x compiler on powerpc64 (at least) we get > this error: > > drivers/video/logo/logo_linux_mono.c:81: error: logo_linux_mono causes a section type conflict > > This was introduced by commit ae52bb2384f721562f15f719de1acb8e934733cb > ("fbdev: move logo externs to header file"). This is a partial revert > of that commit sufficient to not hit the compiler bug. > We're seeing similar issues with 4.3 on parisc (the case I saw today was in fs/nfs/nfsroot.c...) Any ideas on the actual culprit or is it just gcc being unfriendly? regards, Kyle -- 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/