From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>, linux-next@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-next: driver-core tree build failure
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:34:44 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081229173444.f6309a51.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081223042932.GD1928@kroah.com>
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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/
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Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-22 12:59 linux-next: driver-core tree build failure Stephen Rothwell
2008-12-22 14:50 ` Mark McLoughlin
2008-12-23 4:29 ` Greg KH
2008-12-29 6:34 ` Stephen Rothwell [this message]
2008-12-30 15:28 ` Stephen Rothwell
2009-01-02 7:26 ` Greg KH
2009-01-03 4:32 ` Stephen Rothwell
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2009-07-14 6:33 Stephen Rothwell
2009-07-14 7:31 ` David Brownell
2009-07-16 22:50 ` Greg KH
2009-06-23 6:01 Stephen Rothwell
2009-06-23 15:29 ` Greg KH
2009-06-23 16:28 ` Greg KH
2009-05-12 3:44 Stephen Rothwell
2009-05-12 4:05 ` Greg KH
2009-05-13 0:13 ` Greg KH
2009-05-13 1:39 ` Stephen Rothwell
2009-05-04 6:25 Stephen Rothwell
2009-05-04 13:00 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-05 4:18 ` Stephen Rothwell
2009-05-05 4:29 ` Greg KH
2009-05-09 11:16 ` Stephen Rothwell
2009-05-09 13:51 ` Greg KH
2009-03-26 7:34 Stephen Rothwell
2009-03-26 23:00 ` Jesse Barnes
2009-03-16 9:47 Stephen Rothwell
2009-03-22 12:22 ` Stephen Rothwell
2009-03-23 4:23 ` David Miller
2009-03-10 8:24 Stephen Rothwell
2009-03-10 13:31 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2009-03-10 13:38 ` Herbert Xu
2009-03-10 13:53 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2009-03-10 15:29 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2009-03-10 16:08 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2009-03-10 20:02 ` Jason Baron
2009-03-11 3:30 ` Greg KH
2009-03-11 8:33 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2009-03-11 10:07 ` Greg Banks
2009-03-11 10:50 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2009-03-11 15:12 ` Jason Baron
2009-01-26 0:50 Stephen Rothwell
2009-01-26 1:10 ` Greg KH
2009-01-26 12:19 ` Kay Sievers
2009-01-26 17:40 ` Greg KH
2008-12-11 0:21 Stephen Rothwell
2008-12-11 4:55 ` Greg KH
2008-11-19 0:30 Stephen Rothwell
2008-11-19 0:40 ` Kay Sievers
2008-11-19 2:22 ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-11-19 2:24 ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-11-19 6:36 ` Greg KH
2008-11-19 5:43 ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-11-19 6:26 ` Greg KH
2008-11-19 6:51 ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-11-19 6:55 ` Greg KH
2008-09-12 3:53 Stephen Rothwell
2008-09-15 18:58 ` Greg KH
2008-08-15 8:25 Stephen Rothwell
2008-08-16 5:31 ` Greg KH
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