[parisc-linux] Re: Kernel Compilation error 2.4.20

[John David Anglin]

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> In file included from ide-cd.c:318:
> ide-cd.h: At top level:
> ide-cd.h:440: error: long, short, signed or unsigned used invalidly for
                ^^^^^

The problem is that the types "__u8" and "short" can't be used together:

	__u8 short slot_tablelen;

I'd remove the __u8 from the above line in ide-cd.h and retry your build.

Dave