From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Geert Uytterhoeven Subject: Re: linux-next: boot-params tree build failure Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:18:32 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: References: <20081217165557.b4898a4b.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: Received: from winston.telenet-ops.be ([195.130.137.75]:34661 "EHLO winston.telenet-ops.be" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752634AbYLQISh (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Dec 2008 03:18:37 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20081217165557.b4898a4b.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Sender: linux-m68k-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org To: Stephen Rothwell Cc: Rusty Russell , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, Linux/m68k On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > The build of next-20081216 (m68k defconfig) failed like this: > > arch/m68k/kernel/setup.c:230: error: conflicting types for '_end' > arch/m68k/kernel/setup.c:215: error: previous declaration of '_end' was here > > Caused by commit 0de5c2d9f02d2018fd671ca1015432dffa5eb338 ("param: > arch_get_boot_command_line()") from the poot-params tree. This is due to the existing extern int _etext, _edata, _end; in and the newly added extern char _end[]; to arch/m68k/kernel/setup.c. As these are already declared in asm-generic/sections.h (which is used by asm-m68k/sections.h), I'll switch arch/m68k/kernel/setup.c to using them. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds