Re: 2.6.7-rc3-mm1 problems (ACPI and others)

[Mikael Pettersson]

Grzegorz Kulewski writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > I have the following problems with 2.6.7-rc3-mm1:
...
 > 3. PERFCTR gives me compile time errors (see compiler messages). Do I need 
 > any special patches?
...
 >   CC      drivers/perfctr/x86.o
 > /usr/src/linux-2.6.7-rc3-mm1/drivers/perfctr/x86.c: In function 
 > `finalise_backpatching':
 > /usr/src/linux-2.6.7-rc3-mm1/drivers/perfctr/x86.c:1137: error: syntax 
 > error before '{' token

Perfctr is the victim of broken cpumask patches.
Apply the patch below.

diff -ruN linux-2.6.7-rc3-mm1/include/linux/cpumask.h linux-2.6.7-rc3-mm1.cpu_mask_none-fix/include/linux/cpumask.h
--- linux-2.6.7-rc3-mm1/include/linux/cpumask.h	2004-06-09 19:38:39.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.7-rc3-mm1.cpu_mask_none-fix/include/linux/cpumask.h	2004-06-09 22:01:28.470416000 +0200
@@ -248,9 +248,9 @@
 #endif
 
 #define CPU_MASK_NONE							\
-{ {									\
+((cpumask_t) { {							\
 	[0 ... BITS_TO_LONGS(NR_CPUS)-1] =  0UL				\
-} }
+} })
 
 #define cpus_addr(src) ((src).bits)
 
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