Re: [2.5.5 ERROR] Can't compile without NFS

[Neil Brown]

On Tuesday February 26, [e-mail] wrote:
> make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.5/fs'
> gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.5/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686   -DKBUILD_BASENAME=filesystems  -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c filesystems.c
> filesystems.c: In function `sys_nfsservctl':
> filesystems.c:30: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> filesystems.c:30: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> filesystems.c:30: warning: value computed is not used
....

Yeh... sorry 'bout that.

Patch sent to Linus, but didn't make it into 2.5.6-pre1.

--- ./include/linux/nfsd/interface.h	2002/02/20 21:58:11	1.1
+++ ./include/linux/nfsd/interface.h	2002/02/20 23:35:19	1.2
@@ -12,13 +12,15 @@
 
 #include <linux/config.h>
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_NFSD_MODULE
+#ifndef CONFIG_NFSD
+#ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
 
 extern struct nfsd_linkage {
 	long (*do_nfsservctl)(int cmd, void *argp, void *resp);
 	struct module *owner;
 } * nfsd_linkage;
 
+#endif
 #endif
 
 #endif /* LINUX_NFSD_INTERFACE_H */