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From: mkoegler@auto.tuwien.ac.at (Martin Koegler)
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Compile error in drivers/video/backlight/mbp_nvidia_bl.c - v2.6.28
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:27:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090116212703.GA11952@auto.tuwien.ac.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1232129665.25018.8490.camel@macbook.infradead.org>

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 06:14:25PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 09:05 +0100, Martin Koegler wrote:
> > 
> >   CC [M]  drivers/video/backlight/mbp_nvidia_bl.o
> > drivers/video/backlight/mbp_nvidia_bl.c:114: error: storage size of
> > `__mod_dmi_device_table' isn't known
> 
> Hm, didn't we already have a patch to fix this? Is it fixed in
> 2.6.29-rc1, or did we drop the patch?

The bug is still present in:
commit 7cb36b6ccdca03bd87e8faca7fd920643dd1aec7
Merge: a9f8d25... 6272d68...
Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Thu Jan 15 16:55:00 2009 -0800

    Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

All gcc 3.x on my system fail:
gcc-3.2 (GCC) 3.2.3 (Debian)
gcc-3.3 (GCC) 3.3.6 (Debian 1:3.3.6-15)
gcc-3.4 (GCC) 3.4.6 (Debian 3.4.6-5)

mfg Martin Kögler


  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-16 21:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-16  8:05 Martin Koegler
2009-01-16 18:14 ` David Woodhouse
2009-01-16 21:27   ` Martin Koegler [this message]
2009-01-16 21:35     ` David Woodhouse
2009-01-16 21:51       ` Alexey Dobriyan

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