On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 06:25:12PM +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote: > On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 08:26 +0200, Jan Dittmer wrote: > > Len Brown wrote: > > > Hi Linus, > > > > > > please pull from: > > > > > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6.git release > > > > This seems to break ia64 defconfig: > > > > Building modules, stage 2. > > MODPOST 157 modules > > FATAL: drivers/acpi/button: sizeof(struct acpi_device_id)=20 is not a modulo of the size of section __mod_acpi_device_table=144. > > Fix definition of struct acpi_device_id in mod_devicetable.h > > make[2]: *** [__modpost] Error 1 > > make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2 > > make: *** [_all] Error 2 > > > > gcc 3.3.6, binutils 2.15.94 > > > > http://l4x.org/k/?d=32569 > > This is strange, I just compiled on a IA64 with button as module > (defconfig), but with gcc version 4.1.2, all is fine. > Anyone an idea how to run into that? I don't have an idea how this happens, but it sounds like an alignment issue: sizeof(struct acpi_device_id)=20 "struct acpi_device_id button_device_ids[]" contains 6 elements 144 = 6 * 24 = 6 * (3 * 8) So it seems on ia64 with gcc 3.3.6 there's some 8 byte alignment of the array members? Sam and the ia64 maintainers Cc'ed - they might know better what's going on here. > I won't be able to detailed debug this before Monday, but be sure I will > do so then. > > Thanks, > > Thomas cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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