linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.23-rc2-mm2

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Message-ID: <26090.1186764049@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date:	Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:40:49 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@...el32.net>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc2-mm2

On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:23:34 +0200, Aurelien Jarno said:
> I have just tried it, and it fails to build for MIPS with the following
> error:
> 
>   CC      arch/mips/kernel/asm-offsets.s
> In file included from include/linux/sched.h:58,
>                  from arch/mips/kernel/asm-offsets.c:13:
> include/linux/mm_types.h:115: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'pgprot_t'
> include/linux/mm_types.h:169: warning: 'struct file' declared inside parameter list
> include/linux/mm_types.h:169: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want
> include/linux/mm_types.h:175: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'pgd_t'
> 
> 
> The trivial patch below fixes this problem.

Rather than adding it to an include/linux file, where it then gets dragged
in on *all* architectures, maybe we should investigate why it dies on MIPS,
and fix it for *that* arch?

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