[Preston] kernel build

[Andrew King]

Hello there Chris,

> 1139:        if ((!OK_STAT(stat, READY_STAT, BAD_STAT)
> 1140:        return ide_error(drive, "drive_cmd", stat); /* calls ide_end_drive_cmd */
> 1141:        ide_end_drive_cmd (drive, stat, GET_ERR());
> 1142:        return ide_stopped;
> 1143:
> 1144:}


That's dodgy - by my count there are two closing brackets missing on the 
if statement.  However; I doubt that the kernel team would make a major 
release with such a huge error in it - or at least, if they did, someone 
would notice very quickly and they'd probably release 2.4.21 (as well as 
a "So and so screwed up... is this the end for Linux?" article on 
slashdot.org). I find that these are nearly always things that have 
screwed up locally.

I know it's a pain, but just try moving those unpacked kernel sources 
out of the way (read "delete" if you wish), and then unpacking them from 
the tarball again.  I often get random meaningless errors and just 
wiping the lot and starting again more often than not makes them go 
away.  If that doesn't work, it might then be worth getting yourself a 
new copy of the kernel sources.  If you got them through Debian's 
apt-get system, it might be worth getting instead a tarball from one of 
the mirrors of kernel.org.

Good luck,

Andrew