Re: 2.6.12-rc5-mm1: drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/a800.c compile error

[Patrick Boettcher <pb@linuxtv.org>]

Hi,

On Sun, 29 May 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> It seems this patch is responsible for the following compile error with
> gcc 2.95:
> <--  snip  -->
>
> ...
>  CC      drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/a800.o
> In file included from drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/dibusb.h:15,
>                 from drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/a800.c:16:
> drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb.h:196: field `devices' has incomplete type
> ...
> make[4]: *** [drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/a800.o] Error 1
>
> <--  snip -->

The attached patch solves the problem by adding a '0' to the array 
declaration. I don't know if this is ethically correct, but I saw it in 
some v4l-code, so I assume it is.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Boettcher <pb@linuxtv.org>


Thanks for reporting,
Patrick.

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Index: linux/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/linuxtv/dvb-kernel/linux/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb.h,v
retrieving revision 1.16
diff -u -r1.16 dvb-usb.h
--- linux/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb.h	2 May 2005 12:48:01 -0000	1.16
+++ linux/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb.h	30 May 2005 08:24:55 -0000
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@
 	} urb;
 
 	int num_device_descs;
-	struct dvb_usb_device_description devices[];
+	struct dvb_usb_device_description devices[0];
 };