error building MTD modules in 2.5.66-bk10

error building MTD modules in 2.5.66-bk10

[Robert P. J. Day]

  trying to build a kernel with some MTD functionality
for 2.5.66-bk10 generates:


make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=drivers/mtd
make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=drivers/mtd/chips
make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=drivers/mtd/devices
  gcc -Wp,-MD,drivers/mtd/devices/.blkmtd.o.d -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=pentium3 -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default -fomit-frame-pointer -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -DMODULE   -DKBUILD_BASENAME=blkmtd -DKBUILD_MODNAME=blkmtd -c -o drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.o drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:52:25: linux/iobuf.h: No such file or directory
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c: In function `blkmtd_readpage':
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:219: warning: implicit declaration of function `alloc_kiovec'
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:236: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:239: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:240: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:241: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:242: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:243: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:265: warning: implicit declaration of function `brw_kiovec'
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:267: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:268: warning: implicit declaration of function `free_kiovec'
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:169: warning: unused variable `b'
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c: In function `write_queue_task':
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:323: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:351: `KIO_MAX_SECTORS' undeclared (first use in this function)
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:351: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:351: for each function it appears in.)
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:369: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:370: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:382: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:384: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:392: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:393: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:407: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c: In function `blkmtd_erase':
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:527: warning: unused variable `b'
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c: In function `blkmtd_read':
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:640: warning: unused variable `b'
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c: In function `blkmtd_write':
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:713: parse error before "e3"
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:712: warning: unused variable `b'
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c: In function `init_blkmtd':
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:1067: warning: unused variable `b'
make[3]: *** [drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [drivers/mtd/devices] Error 2
make[1]: *** [drivers/mtd] Error 2
make: *** [drivers] Error 2



rday

Re: error building MTD modules in 2.5.66-bk10

[Jörn Engel]

On Fri, 4 April 2003 17:28:37 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:52:25: linux/iobuf.h: No such file or directory

blkmtd is known broken. Try the read-modify-write one instead.

Jörn

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