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On Sunday 01 October 2006 08:20, Kyle Moffett wrote: > On Oct 01, 2006, at 00:53:43, Andrew Morton wrote: [...] > > Bisection shows that this patch causes these depmod warnings: > > > > WARNING: "snd_card_disconnect" [sound/usb/usx2y/snd-usb-usx2y.ko] > > has no CRC! > > [etc] > > > > I don't know why that would happen. > > > > From: Ismail Donmez <ismail@pardus.org.tr> > > > > __STRICT_ANSI__ usage in types.h header results in compile errors > > for some userspace packages[1] when used with gcc -ansi flag. With > > the suggestion of Kyle Moffett I replace strict ansi checks with > > __extension__ to tell gcc not to error or warn on gcc extensions. > > Compile tested on x86 with 2.6.18. > > Best guess: Depmod does some kind of funny type-based expansion and > hashing of the symbols which doesn't understand the "__extension__" > keyword. Probably the simplest thing to do is to add "- > D__extension__=" to the depmod preprocessing flags. Alternatively > you could teach depmod to completely ignore the __extension__ keyword > when it shows up in the sources, but the former seems like it would > be much simpler. > > Just thinking about it we probably also need to educate sparse about > __extension__ too. Perhaps somebody could also add an sparse flag to > make it warn about nonportable constructs in exported header files. > > I'd submit a patch but my knowledge of kernel makefiles and depmod is > somewhere between zero and none, exclusive. Thanks, I will have a look at it. Regards, ismail - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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