Re: Linux 2.5.31

From: Nathaniel (nwf@cinci.rr.com)
Date: Sun Aug 11 2002 - 00:18:27 EST


> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@home.transmeta.com>:
> o Fix up problem with Alan's pnpbios fixes for per-cpu GDT'

   gcc -Wp,-MD,./.pnpbios_core.o.d -D__KERNEL__ -I/home/nwf/src/kernel/linux-2.5.31/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686
-malign-functions=4 -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=pnpbios_core -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c -o pnpbios_core.o pnpbios_core.c
pnpbios_core.c: In function `call_pnp_bios':
pnpbios_core.c:166: invalid lvalue in unary `&'
pnpbios_core.c:166: invalid lvalue in unary `&'
pnpbios_core.c:168: invalid lvalue in unary `&'
pnpbios_core.c:168: invalid lvalue in unary `&'
pnpbios_core.c: In function `pnpbios_init':
pnpbios_core.c:1275: invalid lvalue in unary `&'
pnpbios_core.c:1275: invalid lvalue in unary `&'
pnpbios_core.c:1276: invalid lvalue in unary `&'
pnpbios_core.c:1276: invalid lvalue in unary `&'
pnpbios_core.c:1277: invalid lvalue in unary `&'
pnpbios_core.c:1277: invalid lvalue in unary `&'

This patch allows it to compile (have not yet tested booting):

--- drivers/pnp/pnpbios_core.c.orig-nwf Sun Aug 11 01:11:40 2002
+++ drivers/pnp/pnpbios_core.c Sun Aug 11 01:11:54 2002
@@ -126,11 +126,11 @@

  #define Q_SET_SEL(cpu, selname, address, size) \
  set_base(cpu_gdt_table[cpu][(selname) >> 3], __va((u32)(address))); \
-set_limit(&cpu_gdt_table[cpu][(selname) >> 3], size)
+set_limit(cpu_gdt_table[cpu][(selname) >> 3], size)

  #define Q2_SET_SEL(cpu, selname, address, size) \
  set_base(cpu_gdt_table[cpu][(selname) >> 3], (u32)(address)); \
-set_limit(&cpu_gdt_table[cpu][(selname) >> 3], size)
+set_limit(cpu_gdt_table[cpu][(selname) >> 3], size)

  /*
   * At some point we want to use this stack frame pointer to unwind

--Nathan

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