Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Jan 1998 22:13:13 +0200 (EET) | From | Tuomas Heino <> | Subject | Re: pre 2.2 cleanup items |
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On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Bob Tracy wrote:
> In the 2.1.77 version of linux/drivers/scsi/scsi.c at line 610, there's > a printk() statement with an unnecessary argument. (Just happened to > see the compiler warning go screaming by during a recent rebuild). > > While we're trying to get things cleaned up for the final 2.1.XX release, > here's an item that has been around since <???>. With CONFIG_MODVERSIONS > defined, the following warnings appear numerous times while compiling the > kernel (firewall.c is one of *many* instances): > > In file included from /usr/src/linux-2.1/include/linux/modversions.h:40, > from /usr/src/linux-2.1/include/linux/module.h:19, > from firewall.c:10: > /usr/src/linux-2.1/include/linux/modules/vfatfs_syms.ver:1: warning: `__ver_vfat_create' redefined > /usr/src/linux-2.1/include/linux/modules/namei.ver:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition [snip]
Hmm I think that namei.ver is a stale file not removed for some odd reason... (clean kernel tarballs shouldn't have it or do they?) Anyway I mv'd that namei.ver outta that dir and it compiled without those warnings - am I right on it being a stale file? ;)
[hmm I'm not on linux-kernel at the moment as >100 messages per day is too much for me at the moment...]
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