Re: sfx.c driver build failure

From: Stephen Rothwell
Date: Fri Jul 25 2008 - 03:17:34 EST


On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:15:59 +1000 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The sfx driver (which happens to be part of some of our test configs)
> fails to build in current Linus tree on powerpc with this error:
>
> /home/benh/kernels/linux-powerpc/drivers/net/sfc/efx.c: In function âefx_probe_interruptsâ:
> /home/benh/kernels/linux-powerpc/drivers/net/sfc/efx.c:845: error: lvalue required as unary â&â operand

Commit 695a6b456307455a10059512208e8ed0d376ecd3 "topology: work around
topology_core_siblings() breakage" in linux-next (from the cpus4096 tree)
comments out the offending lines ... With the comment "the topology API
is a mess right now".

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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