Re: linux-next: driver-core tree build failure

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Hi Greg,

On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:34:44 +1100 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:29:32 -0800 Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 02:50:46PM +0000, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 23:59 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > > > Hi Greg,
> > > > 
> > > > Today's linux-next build (powerpc allnoconfig) failed like this:
> > > > 
> > > > drivers/base/core.c: In function '__root_device_register':
> > > > drivers/base/core.c:1277: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> > > > 
> > > > Caused by bf86dbd2451d1012c2c968a960470e485b869f5b ("driver core: add
> > > > root_device_register()").  This needs to cope with !CONFIG_MODULES (where
> > > > struct module is not defined).
> > > 
> > > Ouch, my bad.
> > > 
> > > > I applied the following patch but only for today because it is too hard
> > > > to revert the above patch ...
> > > > 
> > 
> > Ick, I hate ifdefs...  I'll go fix this up.
> 
> Its still there today.  Lucky for you I didn't notice early enough to
> drop the driver-core tree :-).  I will reapply my patch.

Today I dropped the driver-core tree (and the usb and staging trees that
depend on it).

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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