From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S937754AbZAPV1W (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:27:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1764465AbZAPV1G (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:27:06 -0500 Received: from thor.auto.tuwien.ac.at ([128.130.60.15]:42913 "EHLO thor.auto.tuwien.ac.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763868AbZAPV1F (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:27:05 -0500 Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:27:03 +0100 To: David Woodhouse Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Compile error in drivers/video/backlight/mbp_nvidia_bl.c - v2.6.28 Message-ID: <20090116212703.GA11952@auto.tuwien.ac.at> References: <20090116080503.GA11855@auto.tuwien.ac.at> <1232129665.25018.8490.camel@macbook.infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1232129665.25018.8490.camel@macbook.infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: mkoegler@auto.tuwien.ac.at (Martin Koegler) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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 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