On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 10:56:08PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.0-test1/2.6.0-test1-mm1/

There are a mountain of warnings when compiling, and I've traced it to
asm-i386/irq.h, i THINK... for example:

In file included from include/asm/thread_info.h:13,
                 from include/linux/thread_info.h:21,
                 from include/linux/spinlock.h:12,
                 from include/linux/irq.h:17,
                 from arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/winchip.c:8:
include/asm/processor.h:66: warning: padding struct size to alignment boundary
include/asm/processor.h:339: warning: padding struct to align `info'
include/asm/processor.h:401: warning: padding struct to align `i387'
In file included from include/linux/sem.h:4,
                 from include/linux/sched.h:24,
                 from include/asm/irq.h:14,
                 from include/linux/irq.h:20,
                 from arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/winchip.c:8:
include/linux/ipc.h:67: warning: padding struct to align `seq'
In file included from include/linux/sched.h:24,
                 from include/asm/irq.h:14,
                 from include/linux/irq.h:20,
                 from arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/winchip.c:8:
include/linux/sem.h:33: warning: padding struct size to alignment boundary
In file included from include/linux/sched.h:183,
                 from include/asm/irq.h:14,
                 from include/linux/irq.h:20,
                 from arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/winchip.c:8:
include/linux/aio.h:68: warning: padding struct to align `ki_nbytes'
In file included from include/asm/irq.h:14,
                 from include/linux/irq.h:20,
                 from arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/winchip.c:8:
include/linux/sched.h:215: warning: padding struct to align `context'
include/linux/sched.h:363: warning: padding struct to align `pid'
include/linux/sched.h:405: warning: padding struct to align `user'
include/linux/sched.h:411: warning: padding struct to align `link_count'
include/linux/sched.h:470: warning: padding struct size to alignment boundary

on and on and on, several pages for each file compiled.

I don't know what is going on. This is way out of my league..

-Josh

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