[Bugme-new] [Bug 16557] New: drivers/video/console/fbcon.c:3537: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘ ... ’ before string constant

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           Summary: drivers/video/console/fbcon.c:3537: error: expected
                    declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before string constant
           Product: Drivers
           Version: 2.5
    Kernel Version: 2.6.33.6
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
              Tree: Mainline
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P1
         Component: Console/Framebuffers
        AssignedTo: jsimmons at infradead.org
        ReportedBy: jd1008 at gmail.com
        Regression: No


Created an attachment (id=27399)
 --> (https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=27399)
kernel config file

I decided to recompile my kernel because I wanted to add a driver from staging
to it. So, I ran make xconfig (after make oldconfig using my existing config
file for this kernel) and ran make -j 4 all.
Compilation failed as follows:

.
.
.
  CC [M]  drivers/scsi/fnic/vnic_wq_copy.o
  CC [M]  drivers/net/sfc/efx.o
  CC [M]  drivers/video/console/fbcon.o
  CC [M]  drivers/usb/serial/funsoft.o
  CC [M]  drivers/scsi/fnic/vnic_wq.o
drivers/video/console/fbcon.c:3537: error: expected declaration specifiers or
‘...’ before string constant
drivers/video/console/fbcon.c:3537: error: expected declaration specifiers or
‘...’ before ‘quiet_logo’
drivers/video/console/fbcon.c:3537: warning: data definition has no type or
storage class
drivers/video/console/fbcon.c:3537: warning: type defaults to ‘int’ in
declaration of ‘early_param’
drivers/video/console/fbcon.c:3537: warning: function declaration isn’t a
prototype
make[3]: *** [drivers/video/console/fbcon.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [drivers/video/console] Error 2
make[1]: *** [drivers/video] Error 2
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

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