Will,

On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 02:05:18PM -0500, William Cohen wrote:
> >
> >I have released another version of the perfmon new code base package.
> >This version of the kernel patch is relative to 2.6.19-rc6-git10.
> >
> >This is a major update because it completes the changes requested 
> >during the code review on LKML. As a consequence, the kernel interface
> >is NOT backward compatible with previous v2.2 versions. This release has
> >the v2.3 version number. Backward compatibility with v2.0 is maintained
> >on Itanium processors.
> 
> 
> I have built the kernel with the new patches and tried things out on x86_64 
> an x88_64 machine with Fedora Core 4.  I attempted use the new libpfm and 
> pfmon to update the source RPMs and  I noticed that there were some return 
> values from read() and write() being ignored. When pfmon is being built as 
> an RPM ignoring the read and write return values cause the rpmbuild to 
> fail. Attached is a simple patch that stuffs the return values into dummy 
> variable to avoid the warnings. This patch allows libpfm and pfmon the 
> source RPMs to compile on FC4 and Fedora Core rawhide.
> 
Good catch.

I have fixed the problem with a patch similar to yours. You can pull
from CVS and let me know if this works for you.

Thanks.

-- 

-Stephane
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