From: Dave Jones Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 01:01:04 +0000 (-0500) Subject: [PATCH] fix ia64 compile failure with gcc4.1 X-Git-Tag: v2.6.15~21 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ee025949586f80effa634ff273c2444795472780;p=linux-2.6 [PATCH] fix ia64 compile failure with gcc4.1 __get_unaligned creates a typeof the var its passed, and writes to it, which on gcc4.1, spits out the following error: drivers/char/vc_screen.c: In function 'vcs_write': drivers/char/vc_screen.c:422: error: assignment of read-only variable 'val' Signed-off-by: Dave Jones [ The "right" fix would be to try to fix but that's hard to do with the tools gcc gives us. So this simpler patch is preferable -- Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/drivers/char/vc_screen.c b/drivers/char/vc_screen.c index f66c7ad6fd..3c1dafaa34 100644 --- a/drivers/char/vc_screen.c +++ b/drivers/char/vc_screen.c @@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ vcs_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos) while (this_round > 1) { unsigned short w; - w = get_unaligned(((const unsigned short *)con_buf0)); + w = get_unaligned(((unsigned short *)con_buf0)); vcs_scr_writew(vc, w, org++); con_buf0 += 2; this_round -= 2;