linux-kernel - Re: sfx.c driver build failure

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Date:	Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:35:55 +0100 (BST)
From:	Michael Brown <mbrown@...systems.co.uk>
To:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linuxppc-dev list <linuxppc-dev@...abs.org>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>
Subject: Re: sfx.c driver build failure

On Fri, 25 Jul 2008, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> The sfx driver (which happens to be part of some of our test configs) 
> fails to build in current Linus tree on powerpc with this error:
> 
> /home/benh/kernels/linux-powerpc/drivers/net/sfc/efx.c: In function ÿÿefx_probe_interruptsÿÿ:
> /home/benh/kernels/linux-powerpc/drivers/net/sfc/efx.c:845: error: lvalue required as unary ÿÿ&ÿÿ oper
> and

I'm not the maintainer of that code; I wrote the original version, but 
it's now maintained by Solarflare.

I don't see anything on that line that ought to be architecture-specific.  
Could you send me the preprocessed efx.c from your powerpc build?

Michael