Re: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1

On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 05:37:58PM +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote:

Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

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On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 10:34 +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
  

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On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 02:43:48PM +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote:
    

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Andrew Morton wrote:
      

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ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc6/2.6.23-rc6-mm1/

2.6.23-rc6-mm1 is a 29MB diff against 2.6.23-rc6.

         

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Hi Andrew,

The 2.6.23-rc6-mm1build fails at

 CC      drivers/pci/hotplug/rpadlpar_core.o
 CC      drivers/pci/hotplug/rpadlpar_sysfs.o
drivers/pci/hotplug/rpadlpar_sysfs.c:132: error: unknown field `name' 
specified in initializer
drivers/pci/hotplug/rpadlpar_sysfs.c: In function `dlpar_sysfs_init':
drivers/pci/hotplug/rpadlpar_sysfs.c:142: error: structure has no member 
named `name'
make[3]: *** [drivers/pci/hotplug/rpadlpar_sysfs.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [drivers/pci/hotplug] Error 2
make[1]: *** [drivers/pci] Error 2
make: *** [drivers] Error 2
      

This seems to be occuring across a number of the powerpc systems we test
with.  That driver is a power dynamic lpar IO partitioning driver.

Relevant Cc: added.
    

That's because somebody is breaking sysfs/kobject interfaces without
fixing all users :-) (Fair enough... it's just that we need to make sure
whoever takes care of that driver nowadays is aware of the breakage).

Ben.
  

Hi Andrew,

Using the kobject_set_name function to set the kobject k_name.

Close, you should also use the kobject_name() function when referencing
it.

I'll fix this up in the patch, thanks.

Oh, and sorry for breaking this, I could only test all of the modules
build on x86 due to traveling while creating this patch.  I need to set
up some cross-compilers on my laptop to fix this issue :(

thanks,

greg k-h