Re: [2.5 patch] fix drivers/mtd/mtdblock.c compile

Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Tue, 8 Apr 2003 13:46:42 +0200


On Tue, Apr 08 2003, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 10:53:43AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >...
> > Summary of changes from v2.5.66 to v2.5.67
> > ============================================
> >...
> > Jens Axboe:
> >...
> > o kill blk_queue_empty()
> >...
>
> This patch causes the following compile error:
>
> <-- snip -->
>
> ..
> gcc -Wp,-MD,drivers/mtd/.mtdblock.o.d -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -Wall
> -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common
> -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=k6
> -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default -nostdinc -iwithprefix include
> -DKBUILD_BASENAME=mtdblock -DKBUILD_MODNAME=mtdblock -c -o
> drivers/mtd/mtdblock.o drivers/mtd/mtdblock.c
> drivers/mtd/mtdblock.c: In function `handle_mtdblock_request':
> drivers/mtd/mtdblock.c:391: warning: assignment makes pointer from
> integer without a cast
> drivers/mtd/mtdblock.c:391: syntax error before '{' token
> drivers/mtd/mtdblock.c:394: `p' undeclared (first use in this function)
> drivers/mtd/mtdblock.c:394: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> drivers/mtd/mtdblock.c:394: for each function it appears in.)
> drivers/mtd/mtdblock.c: At top level:
> drivers/mtd/mtdblock.c:442: syntax error before '}' token
> make[2]: *** [drivers/mtd/mtdblock.o] Error 1
>
> <-- snip -->
>
>
> The fix is simple:
>
> --- linux-2.5.67-notfull/drivers/mtd/mtdblock.c.old 2003-04-08 13:39:46.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-2.5.67-notfull/drivers/mtd/mtdblock.c 2003-04-08 13:41:43.000000000 +0200
> @@ -388,7 +388,7 @@
> struct mtdblk_dev *mtdblk;
> unsigned int res;
>
> - while ((req = elv_next_request(&mtd_queue) != NULL) {
> + while ((req = elv_next_request(&mtd_queue)) != NULL) {
> struct mtdblk_dev **p = req->rq_disk->private_data;
> spin_unlock_irq(mtd_queue.queue_lock);
> mtdblk = *p;

Thanks, obviously correct!

-- 
Jens Axboe

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