[ltp] ibm-acpi 0.11 and Ubuntu Breezy???

Shannon McMackin linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 09 Sep 2005 22:57:50 -0400


I'm trying to upgrade ibm-acpi on my breezy install and am having some
difficulty.

Here's what happens:

mcmackin@mariner:~/ibm-acpi-0.11$ sudo make
Password:
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.12-8-686/build
SUBDIRS=/home/mcmackin/ibm-acpi-0.11 modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.12-8-686'
  CC [M]  /home/mcmackin/ibm-acpi-0.11/ibm_acpi.o
/home/mcmackin/ibm-acpi-0.11/ibm_acpi.c:1756: error: conflicting types
for 'device_add'
include/linux/device.h:317: error: previous declaration of 'device_add'
was here/home/mcmackin/ibm-acpi-0.11/ibm_acpi.c:1756: error: conflicting
types for 'device_add'
include/linux/device.h:317: error: previous declaration of 'device_add'
was heremake[2]: *** [/home/mcmackin/ibm-acpi-0.11/ibm_acpi.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/mcmackin/ibm-acpi-0.11] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.12-8-686'
make: *** [default] Error 2

I've not seen this behavior before...

Any ideas?

Shannon