Re: [Staging/p9auth] Feb 26 Next: build failure

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Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 04:40:10PM +0530, Sachin P. Sant wrote:
>> Feb 26 Next tree randconfig build fails with
>>
>> drivers/staging/p9auth/p9auth.c: In function cap_write:
>> drivers/staging/p9auth/p9auth.c:249: error: implicit declaration of 
>> function current_uid
>> drivers/staging/p9auth/p9auth.c:261: error: implicit declaration of 
>> function prepare_creds
>> drivers/staging/p9auth/p9auth.c:261: warning: assignment makes pointer from 
>> integer without a cast
>> drivers/staging/p9auth/p9auth.c:266: error: dereferencing pointer to 
>> incomplete type
>> drivers/staging/p9auth/p9auth.c:267: error: dereferencing pointer to 
>> incomplete type
>> drivers/staging/p9auth/p9auth.c:268: error: implicit declaration of 
>> function commit_creds
>> make[3]: *** [drivers/staging/p9auth/p9auth.o] Error 1
> 
> Wierd, I thought cred.h would be pulled in with the current include
> files.

Even if it were, that's not what we want.  We want explicit #includes
for macros or structs etc. that are used in a source file.

> With this .config, if you add:
> 	#include <linux/cred.h>
> to drivers/staging/p9auth/p9auth.c does it solve the build error?
> 
> I'll go add it just to be safe :)

It needs both cred.h and sched.h in my testing.


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~Randy
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