Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Oct 1999 03:54:10 -0700 | From | "Leiden, Soren" <> | Subject | 2.3.23pre6: drivers/char/bttv.c does not compile |
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Is there a fix for this looming around somewhere?
Roman Zippel [zippel@fh-brandenburg.de] wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > These files are very similar. It looks as if one were written > > > from the other. Both of these files define a routine called uvirt_to_kva > > > that attempts to do some arithmetic on the result of pte_page(), > > > > Yes I saw this. The bttv code needs the main memory subsystem to support > > a kmalloc/getfreepage below 4Gig. The rest of it looks fairly easy to fix. > > There are more bugs, like in mm/swapfile.c:unuse_pte(), where a page > struct ptr is used as an argument to MAP_NR. :( > I tried to update the m68k kernel to 2.3.23 during the weekend and gave up > because of the mess. Why the hell has pte_page() a different meaning now, > but still the same name (without a single comment)? > I'm wondering how that works at all... :( > > bye, Roman > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
-- Soren
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