Re: [2/4] 2.6.23-rc3: known regressions

[Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@gmail.com>]

Michal Piotrowski ha scritto: 
> Hi all,
> 
> Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.23-rc3.
> 
> Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc.
> http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions
[...]
> 
> Subject         : FATAL: drivers/acpi/video: sizeof(struct acpi_device_id)=20 is not a modulo of the size of section __mod_acpi_device_table=48
> References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/13/584
> Last known good : ?
> Submitter       : Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Caused-By       : ?
> Handled-By      : ?
> Status          : unknown

Hi Michal,
this is the same as:

Modpost

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 <jdi@l4x.org>
Caused-By       : Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
                  commit 29b71a1ca74491fab9fed09e9d835d840d042690
Handled-By      : ?
Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/2/211
Status          : patch was suggested

It affects every cross-compilaton from 32 bit host (e.g. x86) to a 64 bit
target (e.g. x86_64) and (AFAICS, I haven't tried) vice versa.
Very annoying :|

Luca
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