Re: 2.6.14 assembler compilation error

[Alpt <alpt@freaknet.org>]

On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 02:47:53PM +0100, <Alpt>:
~>   AS      arch/i386/kernel/head.o
~> include/asm-generic/pgtable.h: Assembler messages:
~> include/asm-generic/pgtable.h:114: Error: no such instruction: `static inline void ptep_mkdirty(pte_t *ptep)'
~> include/asm-generic/pgtable.h:115: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `{'
~> include/asm-generic/pgtable.h:116: Error: invalid character '_' in mnemonic
~> include/asm-generic/pgtable.h:117: Error: invalid character '_' in mnemonic
~> include/asm-generic/pgtable.h:118: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `}'
~> make[1]: *** [arch/i386/kernel/head.o] Error 1
~> make: *** [arch/i386/kernel] Error 2

It is compiling \o/

The function ptep_mkdirty doesn't exist at all!
A quick grep -r verifies that.

I re-downloaded the kernel tarball and now it is working.
For some reasons the tarball I was using (dwloaded from kernel.org) got
corrupted, but since I was getting an error on ptep_mkdirty(), I didn't notice
it. I thought of ptep_mkdirty as ptep_make_dirty. Damn, the tarball was dirty! 

This is one more reason to begin to learn all the kernel source code.

Well, time to reboot.
-- 
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