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> While compiling 2.2.0pre4, I got at the final link:
> csum_partial_something missing.
>
> That's because patch creates arch/i386/lib/checksum.S
> and erases arch/i386/lib/checksum.c, but leaves it with a zero
> size, so Make uses size 0 checksum.c to build checksum.o
> instead of checksum.S
>
> Is it normal ?
Older versions of patch dont delete files by default so yes
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christophe.leroy5@capway.com wrote:
> While compiling 2.2.0pre4, I got at the final link:[...]
> That's because patch creates arch/i386/lib/checksum.S
> and erases arch/i386/lib/checksum.c, but leaves it with a zero
> size, so Make uses size 0 checksum.c to build checksum.o
There's an option you can give to patch(1), -E, which causes it to remove
empty files when the result of patching deletes all remaining lines in the
file. Re-patch your kernel. The patch-kernel script uses both the -E and -N
options.
Kris
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> int e8390_base = dev->base_addr;
> - struct ei_device *ei_local = (struct ei_device *) dev->priv;
> +#ifdef EI_LOCAL_NEEDED_FOR_EI_SHIFT
> + struct ei_device *ei_local = (struct ei_device *) dev->priv;
> +#endif
>
> outb_p(E8390_NODMA+E8390_PAGE0, e8390_base+E8390_CMD);
Linus has an opinion about such ifdefs. All those you submit to him vanish
mysteriously.
Alan
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