From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265155AbTLKROO (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Dec 2003 12:14:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265164AbTLKROO (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Dec 2003 12:14:14 -0500 Received: from avs.xs4all.nl ([213.84.37.64]:2944 "EHLO airraid.toptracker.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265155AbTLKRON (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Dec 2003 12:14:13 -0500 Message-ID: <3FD8A5E4.9050206@van.staalduijnen.net> Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 18:14:12 +0100 From: Arjan van Staalduijnen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marco Roeland CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Compile failure when 'Preemptible Kernel' is disabled in 2.6.0-test11. References: <3FD86820.2010507@bioscoopagenda.net> <20031211133341.GA14573@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20031211133341.GA14573@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Marco Roeland wrote: >>[1.] Compile failure when 'Preemptible Kernel' is disabled. > It has nothing to do with 'preemptible'! Correct, but switching that option was just the way for me to trigger or 'untrigger' this problem. > This is a known compiler bug for RedHat's gcc 2.96 version. It has > difficulty casting 'unsigned long long's! Try this, it applies against > 2.6.0-test8 and later. === patch snipped === Applying the patch indeed solved this compile failure. I can now turn off the Preemtible kernel feature while still being able to compile the code. Thanks, Arjan