Re: m68k: kernel/up.c:16: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type

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Hi Stephe,

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 04:20, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:08:57 +0100 Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> I can't seem to reproduce the compile failure of kernel/up.c on m68k,
>> as shown on
>> http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/buildresult/186066/:
>>
>> | kernel/up.c:16: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
>
> When kisskb gets an error in building a kernel, it tries to bisect the
> problem starting from a known good kernel.  The above error occurs
> during the bisection process not when building the original kernel.  I
> guess we need to be a bit more careful when reporting the errors.  Sorry
> about that.

Ah, that explains it, thanks!

I had also just noticed kernel/up.o was compiled twice, and the first
one succeeded.
Now I understand why...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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