On Wed, 2017-11-22 at 18:33 +0100, Patryk Kocielnik wrote: > Joe, > > Thank you for your comments! > > I did compile it beforehand and it was clean. Did I miss anything? You also have to compile it afterhand... i.e.: with your patch applied $ make allyesconfig [] $ make drivers/staging/sm750fb/ [] CC drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.o drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.c: In function ‘lynxfb_set_fbinfo’: drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.c:807:19: error: assignment of read-only location ‘g_fbmode[index]’ g_fbmode[index] = g_def_fbmode; ^ drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.c:809:20: error: assignment of read-only location ‘g_fbmode[index]’ g_fbmode[index] = g_fbmode[0]; ^ drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.c: In function ‘sm750fb_setup’: drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.c:978:17: error: assignment of read-only location ‘g_fbmode[0]’ g_fbmode[0] = opt; ^ drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.c:982:17: error: assignment of read-only location ‘g_fbmode[1]’ g_fbmode[1] = opt; ^ scripts/Makefile.build:310: recipe for target 'drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.o' failed make[1]: *** [drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.o] Error 1 Makefile:1674: recipe for target 'drivers/staging/sm750fb/' failed make: *** [drivers/staging/sm750fb/] Error 2 > _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel