[TRIVIAL PATCH][2.5.66] fix for link-error in i810fb_imageblit

Andy Pfiffer (andyp@osdl.org)
25 Mar 2003 12:13:19 -0800


This patch is one way to fix a link-error found in the i810 FB driver as
found in pure 2.5.66.

The error is reported as an undefined reference to __memcpy() inside
i810fb_imageblit().

The error:
ld -m elf_i386 -T arch/i386/vmlinux.lds.s
arch/i386/kernel/head.o arch/i386/kernel/init_task.o init/built-in.o
--start-group usr/built-in.o arch/i386/kernel/built-in.o
arch/i386/mm/built-in.o arch/i386/mach-default/built-in.o
kernel/built-in.o mm/built-in.o fs/built-in.o ipc/built-in.o
security/built-in.o crypto/built-in.o lib/lib.a arch/i386/lib/lib.a
drivers/built-in.o sound/built-in.o arch/i386/pci/built-in.o
net/built-in.o --end-group -o .tmp_vmlinux1
drivers/built-in.o: In function `i810fb_imageblit':
drivers/built-in.o(.text+0xb59c1): undefined reference to `__memcpy'
make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1

The diff:

diff -Nru a/include/linux/fb.h b/include/linux/fb.h
--- a/include/linux/fb.h Tue Mar 25 12:02:29 2003
+++ b/include/linux/fb.h Tue Mar 25 12:02:29 2003
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
#include <linux/tty.h>
#include <asm/types.h>
#include <asm/io.h>
+#include <asm/string.h>

/* Definitions of frame buffers */

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