linux-kernel - Re: [-next] FATAL: drivers/gpu/drm/udl/udl: sizeof(struct usb_device_id)=24 is not a modulo of the size of section __mod_usb_device

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Message-ID: <m2bokjb6tv.fsf@igel.home>
Date:	Sat, 16 Jun 2012 17:43:40 +0200
From:	Andreas Schwab <schwab@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Bjørn Mork <bjorn@...k.no>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	USB list <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux-Next <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux/m68k <linux-m68k@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [-next] FATAL: drivers/gpu/drm/udl/udl: sizeof(struct usb_device_id)=24 is not a modulo of the size of section __mod_usb_device_table=44.

Bjørn Mork <bjorn@...k.no> writes:

> AFAIK (which admittedly is not much wrt cross building) there is no way
> we can make the host built file2alias know the proper aligment for the
> structure in the target built modules.  That's the background for this
> fix: 
>
> commit 4ce6efed48d736e3384c39ff87bda723e1f8e041
> Author: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nus.ravnborg.org>
> Date:   Sun Mar 23 21:38:54 2008 +0100
>
>     kbuild: soften modpost checks when doing cross builds

This is not a fix in any sense of the word.  modpost can only work
properly if its view of the device_id structures matches *exactly* that
of the target.

Andreas.

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