From: "Benjamin Thery " <Benjamin.Thery@bull.net>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>,
Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>,
"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>,
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kobject: Fix kobject_rename and !CONFIG_SYSFS
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 21:33:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080513213330.utev64tlw4ss0kgw@intran0x.frec.bull.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080513164438.GA31563@kroah.com>
Quoting Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>:
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 04:25:01PM +0200, Benjamin Thery wrote:
>> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>> Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> writes:
>>>> Eric, Randy Dunlap has found that this patch breaks the build when
>>>> CONFIG_SYSFS is not enabled. Can you please fix it up before I send it
>>>> to Linus?
>>>>
>>>> The exact error is:
>>>> In file included from
>>>> /local/linsrc/next-20080509/include/linux/kobject.h:21,
>>>> from
>>>> /local/linsrc/next-20080509/include/linux/module.h:16,
>>>> from
>>>> /local/linsrc/next-20080509/include/linux/crypto.h:21,
>>>> from
>>>> /local/linsrc/next-20080509/arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets_64.c:7,
>>>> from
>>>> /local/linsrc/next-20080509/arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.c:4:
>>>> /local/linsrc/next-20080509/include/linux/sysfs.h: In function
>>>> 'sysfs_rename_dir':
>>>> /local/linsrc/next-20080509/include/linux/sysfs.h:142: error: implicit
>>>> declaration of function 'kobject_set_name'
>>> I will take a look in the morning and see if I can see what is wrong.
>>> Which tree was this error against? I thought I tested this case,
>>> and I'm wondering if there might be another patch that is hiding
>>> kobject_set_name.
>>
>> Argh, headers "cross-dependencies":
>>
>> * linux/kobject.h includes linux/sysfs.h before defining
>> kobject_set_name()
>>
>> * linux/sysfs.h needs to include linux/kobject.h to find
>> kobject_set_name() definition (for inlined sysfs_rename_dir() when
>> CONFIG_SYSFS=n)
>>
>>
>> sysfs_rename_dir() is only called by kobject.c, kobject_rename().
>> I guess this kind of patch is not acceptable to fix the depency?
>
> Ick, no. I'd rather add a kobject_set_name() function prototype to
> sysfs.h in this case, that should remove the error, right?
That's what I did first. But I thought it was worse than the above
solution.
Anyway, adding kobject_set_name() to sysfs.h did fix the error.
-Benjamin
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>
>
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Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-06 17:30 [RESEND][PATCH 00/11] sysfs tagged directories Benjamin Thery
2008-05-06 17:30 ` [PATCH 01/11] sysfs: Support for preventing unmounts Benjamin Thery
2008-05-06 17:30 ` [PATCH 02/11] sysfs: sysfs_get_dentry add a sb parameter Benjamin Thery
2008-05-06 17:31 ` [PATCH 03/11] sysfs: Implement __sysfs_get_dentry Benjamin Thery
2008-05-06 17:31 ` [PATCH 04/11] sysfs: Rename Support multiple superblocks Benjamin Thery
2008-05-06 17:31 ` [PATCH 05/11] sysfs: sysfs_chmod_file handle " Benjamin Thery
2008-05-06 17:31 ` [PATCH 06/11] sysfs: Implement sysfs tagged directory support Benjamin Thery
2008-05-06 17:31 ` [PATCH 07/11] sysfs: Implement sysfs_delete_link and sysfs_rename_link Benjamin Thery
2008-05-06 17:31 ` [PATCH 08/11] driver core: Implement tagged directory support for device classes Benjamin Thery
2008-05-06 17:32 ` [PATCH 09/11] netns: Enable tagging for net_class directories in sysfs Benjamin Thery
2008-05-06 17:32 ` [PATCH 10/11] avoid kobject name conflict with different namespaces Benjamin Thery
2008-05-07 18:49 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-05-07 19:08 ` Greg KH
2008-05-07 20:54 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-05-08 8:28 ` Cornelia Huck
2008-05-08 19:28 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-05-09 5:35 ` Cornelia Huck
2008-05-09 18:16 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-05-08 19:25 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-05-08 21:30 ` [PATCH] wireless: Add missing locking to cfg80211_dev_rename Eric W. Biederman
2008-05-08 22:12 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-05-08 22:18 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-08 21:41 ` [PATCH] Fix kobject_rename and !CONFIG_SYSFS Eric W. Biederman
2008-05-12 22:02 ` kobject: " Greg KH
2008-05-13 7:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-05-13 14:25 ` Benjamin Thery
2008-05-13 16:44 ` Greg KH
2008-05-13 17:55 ` [PATCH] Fix kobject_rename and !CONFIG_SYSFS v2 Eric W. Biederman
2008-05-13 18:23 ` Randy.Dunlap
2008-05-13 20:43 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-05-13 20:16 ` Greg KH
2008-05-13 20:45 ` [PATCH] Fix kobject_rename and !CONFIG_SYSFS v3 Eric W. Biederman
2008-05-13 21:18 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-05-14 4:39 ` [PATCH] Fix kobject_rename and !CONFIG_SYSFS v4 Eric W. Biederman
2008-05-14 5:03 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-14 9:01 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-05-14 9:20 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-14 9:51 ` Benjamin Thery
2008-05-14 9:56 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-13 19:33 ` Benjamin Thery [this message]
2008-05-13 20:42 ` kobject: Fix kobject_rename and !CONFIG_SYSFS Eric W. Biederman
2008-05-06 17:32 ` [PATCH 11/11] sysfs: user namespaces: add ns to user_struct Benjamin Thery
2008-05-06 19:03 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-05-06 17:53 ` [RESEND][PATCH 00/11] sysfs tagged directories Greg KH
2008-05-06 18:41 ` Benjamin Thery
2008-05-07 13:19 ` Daniel Lezcano
2008-05-07 13:47 ` Benjamin Thery
2008-05-14 15:07 ` Benjamin Thery
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