Re: [Ipmitool-devel] v33 compile errors

[Duncan L. <du...@ic...>]

On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 16:31 -0800, Greg Webster wrote:
> Kernel compile (2.6.8) is failing with the below...any have a suggestion
> to get this compiled? I believe my previous email may be the result of
> using version v32 instead of v33.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Greg
> 
> arch/i386/oprofile/nmi_int.c:94: error: variable `nmi_handler' has
> initializer but incomplete type

This compile error seems to be in the oprofile code and related to NMI
handling and not IPMI directly.  However there is an OpenIPMI patch that
makes use of the NMI functionality in linux and changes the underlying
structures to make it suitable for its purpose.  The oprofile code
likely needs updated to take advantage of the new format..

The patch on the openipmi sourceforge download page is called
linux-nmi-2.6.8.1-v33.diff and it might be causing the problem.

This is an optional patch and could be left out, or alternatively you
could remove the oprofile code from the kernel compile by removing the
OPROFILE and PROFILING options from the kernel config and recompiling.

-duncan