From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.2) Gecko/20040308 Description of problem: I'm trying to compile the source code for a third party driver for a multi modem card from equinox (http://http://www.equinox.com/drivers/superserial/eqnx_4.07.html). I had no problem compiling the source for the drivers using kernerl sources version 2.6.5 I'm getting a set of syntax when compiling the source code. The errors reference the kernel file little_endian.h Having googled (for little_endian.h) a bit I've found two other people seeing the same problem when trying to compile sources for other external packages. I've attached a copy of the output errors from the compiler Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.9-1.681 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.installed kernel sources for ver 2.6.9-1.681 2.built and installed a new kernel 3.install equinox sources (following instructions on equinox page) 4.Try to build equinox sources (either using SPECS or make directly) Actual Results: I get a series of syntax errors reported in the file little_endian.h Expected Results: I should have been able to compile the sources without generating errors Additional info:
Created attachment 107873 [details] The output from make when trying to compile equinox sources
I've just found someone posting what looks like a fix to this problem http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0409.2/0723.html
I tried compiling the same equinox sources under kernel-2.6.10 and they compile without problems. I guess that the problem has been resolved in the later kernel, though I cannot see the relevant change when looking at the little_endian.h or at the types.h header.
An update has been released for Fedora Core 3 (kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3) which may contain a fix for your problem. Please update to this new kernel, and report whether or not it fixes your problem. If you have updated to Fedora Core 4 since this bug was opened, and the problem still occurs with the latest updates for that release, please change the version field of this bug to 'fc4'. Thank you.
> If you have updated to Fedora Core 4 since this bug was opened. I have upgraded to FC4 since opening this bug. I have not seen the problem at all under FC4. I currently running a 2.6.11-1 kernel. Best regards Duncan