Re: compiling cmipci in 2.5.10 on Alpha doesn't work

Jurriaan on Alpha (thunder7@xs4all.nl)
Fri, 26 Apr 2002 09:44:16 +0200

From: Jurriaan on Alpha <thunder7@xs4all.nl>
Date: Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 09:31:30AM +0200
> I tried to compile 2.5.10 on my Alpha, but the cmipci module won't
> compile:
>
> cmipci.c:2479: warning: implicit declaration of function `release_resource'

Just found out that this trivial patch remedies it:

--- driver.org Fri Apr 26 09:42:31 2002
+++ driver.h Fri Apr 26 09:37:04 2002
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
*/

#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(2, 4, 0)
-#if defined(__i386__) || defined(__ppc__)
+#if defined(__i386__) || defined(__ppc__) || defined(__alpha__)
/*
* Here a dirty hack for 2.4 kernels.. See kernel/memory.c.
*/

As for the why of this, or if it's the best way to solve it, I've no
idea :-)

Jurriaan

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