linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: wireless-current tree build failure

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Date:	Tue, 5 Aug 2008 18:37:57 +0300
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@...eros.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: wireless-current tree build failure

On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 04:21:52PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> Today's linux-next build (powerpc allyesconfig) failed like this:
> 
> drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/hw.c: In function 'ath9k_hw_9280_spur_mitigate':
> drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/hw.c:4660: internal compiler error: in expand_expr_real_1, at expr.c:9199
> 
> Clearly not our fault! :-) I have informed our toolchain person.  This
> was using the Debian gcc-4.3.  It also fails using the Debian 4.2
> compiler but not the 4.1 one.
>...

Alexandros Couloumbis already opened a bug for this issue on mips, which 
also seems to be affected:
  http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37014

It is a gcc bug, but we'll have to work around it in the ath9k driver.

cu
Adrian

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