linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.23-rc9 compile error drivers/video/fbmon.c

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Date:	Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:16:02 +0200
From:	Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@...el.hist.no>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
CC:	Linux Kernel ML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc9 compile error drivers/video/fbmon.c

Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 12:00:38AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote:
>   
>>  CC      drivers/video/fbmon.o
>> drivers/video/fbmon.c: In function ‘fb_parse_edid’:
>> drivers/video/fbmon.c:867: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, 
>> ‘asm’ or ‘__attrib
>> _’ before ‘*’ token
>> drivers/video/fbmon.c:867: error: ‘block’ undeclared (first use in this 
>> func
>> )
>>
>> This line reads:
>>    unsigned char$*block;
>>
>> Source error, or is my tree simply corrupt?
>>     
>
> The $ is a space character in my copy of the tree, so it seems to be a 
> corrupted tree with a bit error on your side ($ and the space character 
> differ by only one bit).
>   
I downloaded a new tree.
That file has quite a few single-bit errors in my old tree.
Mostly of the +16 variety.
Seems I have to look for bad memory :-( :-( :-(

Helge Hafting
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