[Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#746304: fglrx-modules-dkms: fglrx module fails to build with kernel built from linux-source/make-kpkg

[Andreas Beckmann]

Control: found -1 1:13.12-4
Control: tag -1 upstream moreinfo

On 2014-04-28 22:30, Ludovic Pouzenc wrote:
> On Debian Wheezy, with custom kernel built from source, fglrx module
> fails to build.

Not a bug with using custom kernels, but by your .config triggering an
upstream bug.

> I currently use de custom built 3.10 kernel from wheezy-backports, using
> linux-source-3.10 and make-kpkg.
> I have a customized the .config file (attached) and I don't have made
> any source-code changes.
> 
> Same problem happens with lastest linux-source-3.13 available in
> wheezy-backports with similar .config file (make oldconfig...)
> 
> I have tried to pickup the lastest beta from AMD :
> linux-amd-catalyst-14.4-rc-v1.0-apr17.zip

please verify the problem with 14.4 release (uploaded a few minutes ago)

> I have resolved this problem by adding in firegl_public.c a simple :
> #include <linux/seq_file.h>

This sounds like an upstream bug: seq_file.h is actively used, but only
included indirectly. This works for the stock Debian kernel (and the
kernel configurations upstream tests), but not in your case with a
stripped down config (assumption, did not check this).


Andreas