MTD build broken
Josh Boyer
jwboyer at gmail.com
Tue Nov 15 08:43:02 EST 2005
On 11/15/05, Achin Gupta <achin.gupta at conexant.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to add support for an Intel NOR Flash device on an ARM
> 1026-EJS platform. As mentioned in the "mtd-jffs-HOWTO.txt" I checked
> out the latest code from CVS. However, the build breaks while trying to
> compile the file "fs/jffs2/background.c" as follows :-
>
> >>>>>
> fs/jffs2/background.c:95:22: macro "try_to_freeze" passed 1 arguments,
> but takes just 0
> fs/jffs2/background.c: In function `jffs2_garbage_collect_thread':
> fs/jffs2/background.c:95: warning: the address of `try_to_freeze', will
> always evaluate as `true'
> make[2]: *** [fs/jffs2/background.o] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [fs/jffs2] Error 2
> make: *** [fs] Error 2
> >>>>>
>
> After diffing "background.c" with a previous version I found that the
> problem lies in a call to "try_to_freeze". While it was
> "try_to_freeze(0)" earlier, its become "try_to_freeze()" now.
> I suppose this is a typo. If so kindly fix it at the earliest.
What version do you have and what version did you diff against? The
latest MTD CVS does not have this problem. How did you do your
checkout?
Version 1.59 of background.c has this at line 99:
if (try_to_freeze())
continue;
josh
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