netdev - Re: ath9k build failure

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Date:	Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:33:54 +1000
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@...eros.com>
Cc:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"linux-next@...r.kernel.org" <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>,
	Luis Rodriguez <Luis.Rodriguez@...eros.com>,
	Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@...eros.com>
Subject: Re: ath9k build failure

Hi Luis,

On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:46:57 -0700 "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@...eros.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 11:20:40PM -0700, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > 
> > Today's linux-next build (powerpc allyesconfig) failed like this:
> > 
> > drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/hw.c: In function 'ath9k_hw_spur_mitigate':
> > drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/hw.c:4925: internal compiler error: in expand_expr_real_1, at expr.c:9199
> > 
> > This is a driver that is in Linus' tree and has no patches in the
> > linux-next tree.
> > 
> > The original work around talked about applying the patch twice, so I
> > applied the below patch.
> 
> this is also in wireless-testing. I also see this in linux-2.6
> under b08cbcd4546445740c2a04291204b56f8baf7be2. Not sure how this didn't
> get through linux-next.

That is only the first application of the patch, my patch is a fix of a
second instance of the same code.  See Adrian's post.

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

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