Bug 233647 - missing casts in kernel header file cause vmware module build to fail
Summary: missing casts in kernel header file cause vmware module build to fail
Status: CLOSED DEFERRED
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: rawhide
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Reported: 2007-03-23 15:54 UTC by Jonathan Kamens
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-03-26 05:39:41 UTC

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Description Jonathan Kamens 2007-03-23 15:54:26 UTC 
The call to __cpuid in the cpuid_count function in asm-i386/processor.h needs to
cast the four arguments to __cpuid to unsigned int *, to avoid a type warning
when  this header file is used.  This is harmless most of the time, but harmful
when it is used while trying to build vmware modules, since the module build
code treats warnings as errors and hence draws incorrect conclusions about the
availability of various kernel features.
Comment 1 Dave Jones 2007-03-26 05:39:41 UTC 
The warnings will be turned off before release.
Building release versions of code with -Werror is a really bad idea anyway.
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