Re: Linux 2.4.20-pre2 compile error

Stephane Wirtel (stephane.wirtel@belgacom.net)
Tue, 13 Aug 2002 12:30:24 +0200


are you sure about the patch ?

best regards

On mar, 13 aoû 2002, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Chad Young wrote:
>
> > any idea what causes these errors?
> >
> > make[3]: Entering directory
> > `/home/skidley/kernel/linux-2.4.20-pre2/fs/partitions'
> > gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/home/skidley/kernel/linux-2.4.20-pre2/include -Wall
> > -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common
> > -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686
> > -nostdinc -I /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.95.4/include
> > -DKBUILD_BASENAME=check -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c check.c
> > check.c: In function `devfs_register_disc':
> > check.c:328: structure has no member named `number'
> > check.c:329: structure has no member named `number'
> > check.c: In function `devfs_register_partitions':
> > check.c:361: structure has no member named `number'
> >...
>
> The following patch made by Christoph Hellwig fixes it:
>
>
> --- linux-2.4.20-bk-20020810/include/linux/genhd.h Sat Aug 10 14:37:16 2002
> +++ linux/include/linux/genhd.h Mon Aug 12 23:40:37 2002
> @@ -62,7 +62,9 @@ struct hd_struct {
> unsigned long start_sect;
> unsigned long nr_sects;
> devfs_handle_t de; /* primary (master) devfs entry */
> -
> +#ifdef CONFIG_DEVFS_FS
> + int number;
> +#endif /* CONFIG_DEVFS_FS */
> #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_STATS
> /* Performance stats: */
> unsigned int ios_in_flight;
>
> cu
> Adrian
>
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