Re: [PATCHv2] qla2xxx: Correct compilation issues when CONFIG_MOUDLES=n.

From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>,
	Linux SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	"linux-next@vger.kernel.org" <linux-next@vger.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Giridhar Malavali <giridhar.malavali@qlogic.com>,
	Ravi Anand <ravi.anand@qlogic.com>,
	Lalit Chandivade <lalit.chandivade@qlogic.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] qla2xxx: Correct compilation issues when CONFIG_MOUDLES=n.
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:54:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090912005446.GA11691@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090912003808.GD12098@plap4-2.local>

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 05:38:08PM -0700, Andrew Vasquez wrote:
> Randy Dunlap noted:
> 
>   when CONFIG_MODULES=n:
> 
> 	drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c:2685: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> 
>   in
> 
> 	kobject_uevent_env(&(&vha->hw->pdev->driver->driver)->owner->mkobj.kobj,
> 		KOBJ_CHANGE, envp);
> 
> Trigger kobject event on the 'struct device' hanging off the pci_dev.

Um, why?  What are you trying to do here?  kobject change should not be
for a device, or a "normal" kobject.

What do you expect userspace to do with this?  Where have you documented
it?

confused,

greg k-h