Still being a little new at this I am not sure if this is an issue at

all or not but I noted that while building the 2.6.23-rc6-git8 kernel

this afternoon I received the following error message: 
Building modules, stage 2.

  MODPOST 1670 modules

WARNING: Can't handle masks in drivers/mtd/nand/cafe_nand:FFFF0
I have been building each of the kernels in the 2.6.23-rc series and had

not noted this message before.  I apologize if this is a non-issue.
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I noticed this in a -mm recently and never got around to kicking it

properly because I suspected it was a compiler issue. What version

of gcc and binutils are you using?
David Woodhouse added to cc in case this is a known problem.
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Mel Gorman

Part-time Phd Student                          Linux Technology Center

University of Limerick                         IBM Dublin Software Lab

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Mel - 
Thank you for the response.  I was a little unsure if this was to

trivial to report.  
In any case to answer your question I use version 4.1.2 of GCC and the

binutils package shows as 2.17.20070103cvs-0ubuntu2
Chris
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It's never trivial but don't be discouraged if your report appears to

fall between the cracks - it happens from time to time particularly when
As David says the check will go away in the near future, I reckon it's safe

to ignore the problem (unless David objects) and disable it in your .config

and continue with your testing. As the driver is specific to the One Laptop

Per Child project, I'm guessing you are not affected.
Thanks for testing and reporting.
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Mel Gorman

Part-time Phd Student                          Linux Technology Center

University of Limerick                         IBM Dublin Software Lab

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The only reason for this is because once upon a time, the early FPGA

versions of the CAFÉ chip had the same PCI ident for all three

functions. The cluebat was applied; the chip was fixed long before

tape-out. We can just drop the whole class/mask thing, I suspect -- I

just want to boot it on and OLPC machine before I commit that.
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dwmw2
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