Re: [BUG] 2.6.37-rc8 build failure on Alpha

From: Matt Turner
Date: Tue Jan 04 2011 - 14:34:24 EST


On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Michael Cree <mcree@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, January 4, 2011 9:57 am, Bob Tracy wrote:
>> This probably happened before -rc8, but was not an issue for 2.6.36.
>>
>> The 2.6.37-rc8 kernel build on alpha fails as follows:
>>
>> (...)
>>   LD      usr/built-in.o
>>   AS      arch/alpha/kernel/entry.o
>>   CC      arch/alpha/kernel/traps.o
>> cc1: warnings being treated as errors
>> In file included from
>> /usr/src/linux-2.6/arch/alpha/include/asm/mmu_context.h:22,
>>                  from arch/alpha/kernel/traps.c:26:
>> /usr/src/linux-2.6/arch/alpha/include/asm/io.h: In function '__set_hae':
>> /usr/src/linux-2.6/arch/alpha/include/asm/io.h:41: error:
>> 'arch_local_irq_save' is static but used in inline function '__set_hae'
>> which is not static
>> /usr/src/linux-2.6/arch/alpha/include/asm/io.h:49: error:
>> 'arch_local_irq_restore' is static but used in inline function '__set_hae'
>> which is not static
>
> A patch that fixes this was posted to linux-alpha some time ago (see
> http://www.spinics.net/linux/lists/linux-alpha/msg00710.html).  I am not
> sure why it hasn't made it through to Linus as yet.
>
> Cheers
> Michael.

I haven't had much time for alpha things, so I haven't been keeping up
with patches lately. I'll send everything in my patch queue to Linus
for the .38 merge window.

Please send Ivan's patch to Linus directly, and CC Ivan so he can give
his Signed-off-by tag.

Thanks Michael and Bob.

Matt
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