Error in compiling a Linux kernel

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How do you read the errors?

I run after having .config -file at /home/aal/build/kernel.

/usr/src/linux-2.6$ make O=/home/aal/build/kernel/

I get

  ... cut ...
  CC [M]  drivers/staging/go7007/s2250-board.o
/usr/src/linux-2.6/drivers/staging/go7007/s2250-board.c:24:26: error: s2250-loader.h: No such file or directory
/usr/src/linux-2.6/drivers/staging/go7007/s2250-board.c: In function ‘read_reg_fp’:
/usr/src/linux-2.6/drivers/staging/go7007/s2250-board.c:264: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘down_interruptible’ from incompatible pointer type
/usr/src/linux-2.6/include/linux/semaphore.h:43: note: expected ‘struct semaphore *’ but argument is of type ‘struct mutex *’
/usr/src/linux-2.6/drivers/staging/go7007/s2250-board.c:273: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘up’ from incompatible pointer type
/usr/src/linux-2.6/include/linux/semaphore.h:47: note: expected ‘struct semaphore *’ but argument is of type ‘struct mutex *’
/usr/src/linux-2.6/drivers/staging/go7007/s2250-board.c: In function ‘s2250_init’:
/usr/src/linux-2.6/drivers/staging/go7007/s2250-board.c:670: error: implicit declaration of function ‘s2250loader_init’
/usr/src/linux-2.6/drivers/staging/go7007/s2250-board.c:676: error: implicit declaration of function ‘s2250loader_cleanup’
make[4]: *** [drivers/staging/go7007/s2250-board.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** [drivers/staging/go7007] Error 2
make[2]: *** [drivers/staging] Error 2
make[1]: *** [drivers] Error 2
make: *** [sub-make] Error 2

richo · Accepted Answer · 2009-12-01 01:21:24Z

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Remove the reference to that driver from your .config and the issue will go away. Alternately if you need the driver appropriate the source.

All of those errors are caused by the missing header.

answered Dec 1, 2009 at 1:21

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Léo Léopold Hertz 준영 Over a year ago

How can you remove the reference to the file in the .config? I did not find any driver with the given name. - I also tried to remove the given file, but some files are dependent on it so it cannot just be removed.

richo Over a year ago

You can't just remove the files in question. Can you paste up your .config? Or a pastebin link to it? Only too happy to help then :)

Nikolai Fetissov · Accepted Answer · 2009-12-01 21:56:46Z

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The errors are in a staging driver, i.e. either not yet, or already not stable driver (take a look e.g. here for a discussion of the staging tree.) You can disable these in kernel config Device Drivers --> Staging Drivers.

answered Dec 1, 2009 at 21:56

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John Weldon · Accepted Answer · 2009-12-01 01:15:56Z

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The errors probably all stem from the missing file in the first error.

I'd suspect include path or incomplete install of the sources...

answered Dec 1, 2009 at 1:15

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