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

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Date:	Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:17:15 +1000
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	benh@...nel.crashing.org
Cc:	Michael Brown <mbrown@...systems.co.uk>,
	linuxppc-dev list <linuxppc-dev@...abs.org>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: sfx.c driver build failure

On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:15:59 +1000 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org> 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 ‘efx_probe_interrupts’:
> /home/benh/kernels/linux-powerpc/drivers/net/sfc/efx.c:845: error: lvalue required as unary ‘&’ operand

Commit 695a6b456307455a10059512208e8ed0d376ecd3 "topology: work around
topology_core_siblings() breakage" in linux-next (from the cpus4096 tree)
comments out the offending lines ...  With the comment "the topology API
is a mess right now".

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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