2.6.6-rc3: gcc 2.95: cx88 __ucmpdi2 error

[Adrian Bunk]

On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 09:56:08PM +1000, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >s390, cifs, ntfs, ppc, ppc64, cpufreq upates. Oh, and DVB and USB.
> >
> >I'm hoping to do a final 2.6.6 later this week, so I'm hoping as many 
> >people as possible will test this.
> 
> OK, I'll bite. Building using :
> 	# gcc --version
> 	2.95.4
> 
> depmod says:
> 
>...
> WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.6-rc3/kernel/drivers/media/video/cx88/cx8800.ko 
> needs unknown symbol __ucmpdi2

I'm also seeing this, but only with gcc 2.95, not with gcc 3.3.3 .

It comes from drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-video.c, more exactly from 
the switch in set_tvaudio.

But I have to admit I don't understand why exactly it does happen.

cu
Adrian

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