Re: m68k build failure

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> > On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:07:23 -0800
> > Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > > Current Linus tree give me this, with m68k allmodconfig:
> > > 
> > > FATAL: drivers/bluetooth/btsdio: sizeof(struct sdio_device_id)=12 is not a modulo of the size of section __mod_sdio_device_table=30.
> > > Fix definition of struct sdio_device_id in mod_devicetable.h
> > > 
> > > which I haven't seen before.  Any ideas?
> > 
> > No the slightest. 12 seems like the correct, padded size. A size of 10 is just weird as the unpadded size is 9 bytes. Could you dump the __mod_sdio_device_table section so we can determine if it is cropped or just oddly padded.
> 
> 10 is correct. On m68k, the natural alignment of quantities larger than
> one byte is 2 bytes, not 4 bytes.

So the problem is in scripts/mod/file2alias.c, which gives a different
sizeof(struct sdio_device_id) on the cross-compile host:
  - sizeof(struct sdio_device_id) = 12 on ia32
  - sizeof(struct sdio_device_id) = 10 on m68k

While file2alias.c has code to handle 32 vs. 64 bit correctly when
cross-compiling, it doesn't handle alignment differences between host
and target.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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