[syslinux] Issues compiling syslinux-3.72 on Linux 2.6.25(.19)

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Nov 4 01:46:34 PST 2008


Philip Prindeville wrote:
> 
> Oddly, the line:
> 
> static inline int fat_valid_media(u8 media)
> 
> 
> is also the same that causes dosfstools to not compile... so this might 
> be an issue with kernel header changes... but we were hoping someone had 
> come up with a patch for this.
> 
> Any assistance is appreciated.
> 

You have broken kernel headers; they have since been fixed.

You can simply remove the fat_valid_media() definition; it should never
have been exported to userspace.

	-hpa




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