[PATCH] kexec-tools, ppc64: fix build error on ppc64

Simon Horman horms at verge.net.au
Tue May 4 23:39:29 EDT 2010


On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 01:35:21PM +1000, Michael Neuling wrote:
> 
> 
> In message <20100505023316.GF13035 at verge.net.au> you wrote:
> > On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 11:48:53AM +1000, Michael Neuling wrote:
> > > 6adc05c6e3fdbc8b9f5d915af78ca05d0a09cb17 "some kexec MIPS
> > > improvements" broke pp64 as it turned on -Werror for all archs.
> > > 
> > > This fixes the warning and hence ppc64 building.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > While I'm very much in favour of using -Werror for testing
> > and these kind of patches are great, I think that -Werror
> > by default is rather silly. We can't control what will be
> > a warning in the future and sometimes fixing warnings isn't
> > appropriate - for instance there are warnings in fs2dt.c at
> > the moment, that is currently considered an upstream problem.
> > 
> > In short, this patch is great. But I plan to also remove -Werror
> > as the default now that its been brought to my attention.
> 
> Cool.  My second patch should do this for all but MIPS.

Unfortunately the second patch breaks make tarball.
For now I have committed the following:



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