Re: [BUILD_FAILURE] 2.6.24-git18 build fails section type conflict psmouse-base

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 03:35:16PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> 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?

We should have caught all architectures having problems, and a slightly 
improved patch is now in Linus' tree.

> Thanks,
> Rusty.

cu
Adrian

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