Hi Greg,

On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:29:32 -0800 Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 02:50:46PM +0000, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 23:59 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > > Hi Greg,
> > > 
> > > Today's linux-next build (powerpc allnoconfig) failed like this:
> > > 
> > > drivers/base/core.c: In function '__root_device_register':
> > > drivers/base/core.c:1277: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> > > 
> > > Caused by bf86dbd2451d1012c2c968a960470e485b869f5b ("driver core: add
> > > root_device_register()").  This needs to cope with !CONFIG_MODULES (where
> > > struct module is not defined).
> > 
> > Ouch, my bad.
> > 
> > > I applied the following patch but only for today because it is too hard
> > > to revert the above patch ...
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Cheers,
> > > Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb.auug.org.au
> > > http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
> > > 
> > > From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
> > > Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:50:56 +1100
> > > Subject: [PATCH] driver core: fix root_device_register for not CONFIG_MODULES
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/base/core.c |    2 ++
> > >  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
> > > index 6fbdd8b..aa93980 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/base/core.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/base/core.c
> > > @@ -1273,6 +1273,7 @@ struct device *__root_device_register(const char *name, struct module *owner)
> > >  		return ERR_PTR(err);
> > >  	}
> > >  
> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_MODULE
> > >  	if (owner) {
> > >  		struct module_kobject *mk = &owner->mkobj;
> > >  
> > > @@ -1283,6 +1284,7 @@ struct device *__root_device_register(const char *name, struct module *owner)
> > >  		}
> > >  		root->owner = owner;
> > >  	}
> > > +#endif
> > 
> > Yep, looks correct to me ...
> 
> Ick, I hate ifdefs...  I'll go fix this up.

Its still there today.  Lucky for you I didn't notice early enough to
drop the driver-core tree :-).  I will reapply my patch.
-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/