[ltp] ibm-acpi 0.11 compilation problems with Fedora devel 2.6.13-rc5... and Mandrake 10.2

Marcin Trybus linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 22 Aug 2005 01:12:28 +0200


Martin Hermanowski wrote:

>I had the same problem when installing 2.6.13-rc4-mm1. There seems to be
>a new funtion in the linux kernel named `device_add', so I just renamed
>the two occurrences of `device_add' in the ibm-acpi module to
>`ibmacpi_device_add', and it worked like a charm. Since this function
>doesn't actally do anything, I suspect that this cannont break anything. 
>  
>

I had a similar problem in Mandrake 10.2, kernel 2.6.12.2 with 
acpi20050729 patch. The solution worked as well.

I certainly hope it won't break anything. ;-)



Marcin Trybus