Re: 2.6.15-rc5-mm2

[Reuben Farrelly <reuben-lkml@reub.net>]

On 12/12/2005 1:20 a.m., Andrew Morton wrote:
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.15-rc5/2.6.15-rc5-mm2/
>
> - Many new driver updates and architecture updates
>
> - New CPU scheduler policy: SCHED_BATCH.
>
> - New version of the hrtimers code.

Works fine.  However now that Redhat Rawhide contains gcc version 4.1.0 20051207 
(Red Hat 4.1.0-0.6) I'm seeing quite a few compile warnings, one in particular 
appearing in hundreds of lines:

In file included from include/asm/mpspec.h:5,
                 from include/asm/smp.h:18,
                 from include/linux/smp.h:22,
                 from include/linux/sched.h:26,
                 from include/linux/module.h:10,
                 from drivers/net/sky2.c:39:
include/asm/mpspec_def.h:78: warning: 'packed' attribute ignored for field of 
type 'unsigned char[5u]'


There is a patch in the Fedora Core Kernel RPM that 'fixes' this for the FC kernels:

http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/devel/kernel/linux-2.6-gcc41.patch
http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/devel/kernel/linux-2.6-gcc41.patch?rev=1.3&view=markup

Perhaps part or all of it could go into -mm for further testing?  Is this a gcc 
glitch or something that ought to be fixed in the kernel?  (davej?)


reuben
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