The patch titled
Fix longstanding "error: storage size of '__mod_dmi_device_table' isn't known"
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
fix-longstanding-error-storage-size-of-__mod_dmi_device_table-isnt-known.patch
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Subject: Fix longstanding "error: storage size of '__mod_dmi_device_table' isn't known"
From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
Needs human-understandable changelog.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/mod_devicetable.h | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff -puN include/linux/mod_devicetable.h~fix-longstanding-error-storage-size-of-__mod_dmi_device_table-isnt-known include/linux/mod_devicetable.h
--- a/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h~fix-longstanding-error-storage-size-of-__mod_dmi_device_table-isnt-known
+++ a/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h
@@ -443,6 +443,13 @@ struct dmi_system_id {
struct dmi_strmatch matches[4];
void *driver_data;
};
+/*
+ * struct dmi_device_id appears during expansion of
+ * "MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(dmi, x)". Compiler doesn't look inside it
+ * but this is enough for gcc 3.4.6 to error out:
+ * error: storage size of '__mod_dmi_device_table' isn't known
+ */
+#define dmi_device_id dmi_system_id
#endif
#define DMI_MATCH(a, b) { a, b }
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
linux-next.patch
sm501-fix-section-mismatches.patch
mpt-remove-unused-struct-mpt_proc_entry_t.patch
seq_file-move-traverse-so-it-can-be-used-from-seq_read.patch
seq_file-properly-cope-with-pread.patch
fix-longstanding-error-storage-size-of-__mod_dmi_device_table-isnt-known.patch
softirq-introduce-statistics-for-softirq.patch
proc-export-statistics-for-softirq-to-proc.patch
proc-export-statistics-for-softirq-to-proc-fix.patch
proc-update-document-for-proc-softirqs-and-proc-stat.patch
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