Subject: 2.6.23-rc1-mm1: net/ipv4/fib_trie.c compile error

From: Adrian Bunk <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:15:57 +0200

On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 04:03:04AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>...
> Changes since 2.6.22-rc6-mm1:
>...
> +immunize-rcu_dereference-against-crazy-compiler-writers.patch
>...
>  Misc new patches
>...

This patch causes the following compile error:

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  CC      net/ipv4/fib_trie.o
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1/net/ipv4/fib_trie.c: In function ‘trie_rebalance’:
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1/net/ipv4/fib_trie.c:969: error: lvalue required as unary ‘&’ operand
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1/net/ipv4/fib_trie.c:971: error: lvalue required as unary ‘&’ operand
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1/net/ipv4/fib_trie.c:977: error: lvalue required as unary ‘&’ operand
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1/net/ipv4/fib_trie.c:980: error: lvalue required as unary ‘&’ operand
...
make[3]: *** [net/ipv4/fib_trie.o] Error 1

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cu
Adrian

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