linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.23-rc2-mm1 -- PPC G5 kernel compile failure (patch)

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Message-ID: <20070809171834.GB7060@shadowen.org>
Date:	Thu, 9 Aug 2007 18:18:34 +0100
From:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>
To:	Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@...pl>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, drfickle@...ibm.com, mel@....ul.ie
Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc2-mm1 -- PPC G5 kernel compile failure (patch)

On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 04:20:06PM +0200, Krzysztof Helt wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 14:04:49 +0100
> Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org> wrote:
> 
> > Seeing the following compile error on a G5 mac:
> > 
> >   drivers/video/tdfxfb.c: In function 'tdfxfb_setup':
> >   drivers/video/tdfxfb.c:1341: error: 'opt' undeclared (first use in this
> >                                                                  function)
> >   drivers/video/tdfxfb.c:1341: error: (Each undeclared identifier is
> >                                                         reported only once
> >   drivers/video/tdfxfb.c:1341: error: for each function it appears in.)
> > 
> > This seems to be the following fragment from tdfxfb-hardware-cursor:
> > 
> > +               } else if (!strcmp(this_opt, "hwcursor")) {
> > +                       hwcursor = simple_strtoul(opt + 9, NULL, 0);
> > 
> > I guess the nieve fix would be s/opt/this_opt, but I am also
> > suspicious of the +9 here as hwcursor is only 8 long?  Now this
> > seems to take a numeric value and I assume that is via hwcursor=N,
> > if so then the +9 would make sense _if_ the strcmp was against
> > "hwcursor=".
> > 
> 
> The patch below fixes all issues you have pointed out. It also fixes
> the description of the nomtrr option.

Will push this through our tests and let you know.

-apw
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