Randy Dunlap noted:
when CONFIG_MODULES=n:
drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c:2685: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
in
kobject_uevent_env(&(&vha->hw->pdev->driver->driver)->owner->mkobj.kobj,
KOBJ_CHANGE, envp);
Signed-off-by: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
On Tue, 08 Sep 2009, Andrew Vasquez wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Sep 2009, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 7 Sep 2009 21:02:06 +1000 Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Changes since 20090904:
> >
> >
> > when CONFIG_MODULES=n:
> >
> > drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c:2685: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> >
> > in
> > kobject_uevent_env(&(&vha->hw->pdev->driver->driver)->owner->mkobj.kobj,
> > KOBJ_CHANGE, envp);
>
> Argg... Some history here... During several unwelcome
> hardware/firmware events (ISP system error, mailbox command timeouts,
> etc), the qla2xxx driver can store a 'firmware-dump' (essentially a
> snapshot of the current state of the ISP firmware). This snapshot is
> then captured via a user-space tool querying a driver sysfs-node
> hanging off of a scsi_host's device tree:
>
> /sys/class/scsi_host/host4/device/fw_dump
>
> The dump is then used by our firmware engineering group to help triage
> the issue.
>
> This recent change:
>
> commit 10a71b40153a19279428053ad9743e15ef414148
> Author: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue Aug 25 11:36:15 2009 -0700
>
> [SCSI] qla2xxx: Add firmware-dump kobject uevent notification.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Giridhar Malavali <giridhar.malavali@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxx>
>
> attempted to help 'automate' the task of retrieval by signaling udev
> to automatically run the 'retrieval' script anytime the driver
> captured the firmware-dump. Here's a snippet of the udev rule:
>
> # qla2xxx driver
> KERNEL=="qla2xxx", SUBSYSTEM=="module", ACTION=="change", RUN+="qla2xxx_udev.sh"
>
> Any suggestions here on an alternate driver-specific kobject an LLD
> can/should use for something like this? I looked previously at other
> callers of kobject_uevent_env(), but didn't really see a simlar
> usage-pattern of a driver wanting to signal events to userspace...
>
> Thanks, AV
Ok, So any strong objections to just having the functionality present
when module support is enabled?
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c b/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c
index 29396c0..3887adb 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c
@@ -2671,6 +2671,7 @@ qla2x00_post_uevent_work(struct scsi_qla_host *vha, u32 code)
static void
qla2x00_uevent_emit(struct scsi_qla_host *vha, u32 code)
{
+#ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
char event_string[40];
char *envp[] = { event_string, NULL };
@@ -2685,6 +2686,7 @@ qla2x00_uevent_emit(struct scsi_qla_host *vha, u32 code)
}
kobject_uevent_env(&(&vha->hw->pdev->driver->driver)->owner->mkobj.kobj,
KOBJ_CHANGE, envp);
+#endif
}
void
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