Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Dec 2002 21:42:39 -0800 (PST) | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: massive compile failures w/ 2.5.51 on RH8.0 |
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On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Dave Jones wrote:
| On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 04:06:59PM -0800, Rod Van Meter wrote: | | > At this point I've concluded that something in my setup is busted. | > Surely this large a fraction of things don't currently fail to even | > compile? | | This large a fraction of things don't currently compile. | And don't call me Shirley. 8-) | | Seriously, you got unlucky, and seem to be hitting just about | every broken driver/filesystem there is in 2.5 right now. | If you take a look at bugzilla.kernel.org you'll see that | most of the compile errors noted there are those that you've | highlighted. | | Things like Intermezzo don't affect a large proportion of users, | so remain broken for some time. The framebuffer changes in 2.5.51 | fixed up a whole bunch of problems that had been lingering for | a while, but there's still a lot of drivers not converted over | to the new API. | | Compile-time breakage is to be expected in 2.5.x. It's a hard-hat | area. You may have more luck with 2.5-ac.
and some of these may have patches available for them on lkml. I know that intermezzo does, from Peter Braam, with a small follow-up by me, so it's fixable if you want it. Surely (Rod ;).
-- ~Randy
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