MPC83xx: ns16550.c - 'SERIAL_PORT_DFNS' undeclared?

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Jan 23 08:00:35 EST 2007


On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 23:34 +0300, Vitaly Bordug wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 12:14:04 -0800
> Russell McGuire wrote:
> 
> > Ben,
> > 
> > That could be the problem
> > 
> > I am building using ARCH=ppc
> > 
> > What is the difference between the two?
> Newer targets appear within arch/powerpc... Concerning your question, 
> you seem to add new board hence you'll have to do those SERIAL_PORT_DFNS
> in board-specific header file - grep for them inside arch/ppc for reference (if
> that code is still there of course).

Note that SERIAL_PORT_DFNS are pretty much deprecated too :-) Nobody
cared fixing arch/ppc but for arch/powerpc, you should use one of the
new mecanisms, if possible using the device-tree / platform devices.

Ben.





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