Hi John,

Today's linux-next build (powerpc allyesconfig) failed like this:

drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/hw.c: In function 'ath9k_hw_9280_spur_mitigate':
drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/hw.c:4660: internal compiler error: in expand_ex=
pr_real_1, at expr.c:9199

Clearly not our fault! :-) I have informed our toolchain person.  This
was using the Debian gcc-4.3.  It also fails using the Debian 4.2
compiler but not the 4.1 one.

For now, I will apply the following patch to just stop it building on
PowerPC.

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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Alexandros Couloumbis already opened a bug for this issue on mips, which 
also seems to be affected:
  http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37014

It is a gcc bug, but we'll have to work around it in the ath9k driver.

cu
Adrian

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Hi Adrian,


Thanks for fishing that out Adrian.
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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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I imagine that we would be happy to do that.  Anyone have a clue as to how?

John
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Hi John,

On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 12:00:26 -0400 "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.co=
w?

I think that "not yet" is the answer :-(

If we don't get a useful answer soon, we may just have to merge the
driver with appropriately commented negative "depends on" in Kconfig for
the arches it breaks.

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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Patch below, verified to fix the issue with the following compilers:
- powerpc 4.2.4
- powerpc latest 4.3 SVN
- powerpc latest 4.4 SVN
- mips 4.2.4
- mips 4.3.1

The patch has to be applied twice for fixing both copies of the

cu
Adrian


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This patch works around an internal compiler error (gcc bug #37014) in 
all gcc 4.2 compilers and the gcc 4.3 series up to at least 4.3.1
on at least powerpc and mips.

Many thanks to Andrew Pinski for analyzing the gcc bug.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>

---
d1ec5b9fba6c50c7e98a85776a3b95d3a3a3179b 
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/hw.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/hw.c
index 1f6f393..5edc56d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/hw.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/hw.c
@@ -4801,7 +4801,11 @@
 
 	for (i = 0; i < 123; i++) {
 		if ((cur_vit_mask > lower) && (cur_vit_mask < upper)) {
-			if ((abs(cur_vit_mask - bin)) < 75)
+
+			/* workaround for gcc bug #37014 */
+			volatile int tmp = abs(cur_vit_mask - bin);
+
+			if (tmp < 75)
 				mask_amt = 1;
 			else
 				mask_amt = 0;
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