On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 12:40:49PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:23:34 +0200, Aurelien Jarno said:
> > I have just tried it, and it fails to build for MIPS with the following
> > error:
> >
> > CC arch/mips/kernel/asm-offsets.s
> > In file included from include/linux/sched.h:58,
> > from arch/mips/kernel/asm-offsets.c:13:
> > include/linux/mm_types.h:115: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list
> > before 'pgprot_t'
> > include/linux/mm_types.h:169: warning: 'struct file' declared inside
> > parameter list
> > include/linux/mm_types.h:169: warning: its scope is only this definition or
> > declaration, which is probably not what you want
> > include/linux/mm_types.h:175: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list
> > before 'pgd_t'
> >
> >
> > The trivial patch below fixes this problem.
>
> Rather than adding it to an include/linux file, where it then gets dragged
> in on *all* architectures, maybe we should investigate why it dies on MIPS,
> and fix it for *that* arch?
It must be included on *all* architectures, and the architectures where
asm/page.h wasn't by chance already included indirectly included by some
other header don't compile.
cu
Adrian
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