Hi Andy,

On 06/08/07, Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> wrote:
quoted text
> Between 2.6.23-rc1-git1 and 2.6.23-rc1-git2 we started getting the
> following fatal error during modpost on an x86_64 machine:
>
>   FATAL: drivers/acpi/video: sizeof(struct acpi_device_id)=20 is not a
>   modulo of the size of section __mod_acpi_device_table=48.
>   Fix definition of struct acpi_device_id in mod_devicetable.h
>   make[1]: *** [__modpost] Error 1
>
> This check seems to have been added as part of the following commit:
>
>   commit 29b71a1ca74491fab9fed09e9d835d840d042690
>   Author: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
>   Date:   Mon Jul 23 14:43:51 2007 +0200
>
>       ACPI: autoload modules - Create ACPI alias interface
>
> Compiler version:
>   Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux/3.4.4/specs
>   Configured with: ../src/configure -v
>   --enable-languages=c,c++,java,f77,pascal,objc,ada,treelang --prefix=/usr
>   --libexecdir=/usr/lib --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/3.4
>   --enable-shared --with-system-zlib --enable-nls
>   --without-included-gettext --program-suffix=-3.4 --enable-__cxa_atexit
>   --enable-libstdcxx-allocator=mt --enable-clocale=gnu
>   --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-java-gc=boehm --enable-java-awt=gtk
>   --disable-werror i486-linux
>   Thread model: posix
>   gcc version 3.4.4 20050314 (prerelease) (Debian 3.4.3-13sarge1)
>
> We are compiling a 64bit kernel on a machine with a pretty old
> userspace which is 32bit.
>
> Let me know if you need more info.
>
> -apw

similar to

Subject         : modpost bug breaks ia64 cross compilation
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/27/30
                  http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/27/418
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Jan Dittmer <jdi@l4x.org>
Caused-By       : Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
                  commit 29b71a1ca74491fab9fed09e9d835d840d042690
Handled-By      : ?
Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/2/211
Status          : patch was suggested

Please try this patch http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/2/211

Regards,
Michal

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