Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Fix b43 driver build for arm

From: Russell King
Date: Mon Feb 18 2008 - 17:14:09 EST


On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 11:08:56PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
> On Monday 18 February 2008 23:03:10 Gordon Farquharson wrote:
> > The b43 driver in 2.6.25-rc[12] fails to build for arm on an x86_64
> > box using a cross-compiler:
> >
> > FATAL: drivers/net/wireless/b43/b43: sizeof(struct ssb_device_id)=6 is
> > not a modulo of the size of section __mod_ssb_device_table=64.
> > Fix definition of struct ssb_device_id in mod_devicetable.h
>
> Why does ARM have this special requirement and what is it about?

Because ARM is a 32 bit architecture.

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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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