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Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 10:12:30 -0300
From: Werner Almesberger <wa@almesberger.net>
To: reneb@cistron.nl
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Subject: Re: 2.5.48 Compilation Failure skbuff.c
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Rene Blokland wrote:
> include/linux/crypto.h: In function `crypto_tfm_alg_modname':
> include/linux/crypto.h:202: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
[...]
> Any comments?

Disabling modules should work around this. Alternatively, you can
try the untested patch below. I also had to disable devfs to build
2.4.58.

- Werner

---------------------------------- cut here -----------------------------------

--- ../linux-2.5.48.orig/include/linux/crypto.h	Mon Nov 18 01:29:29 2002
+++ linux-2.5.48/include/linux/crypto.h	Mon Nov 18 10:03:46 2002
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 #ifndef _LINUX_CRYPTO_H
 #define _LINUX_CRYPTO_H
 
+#include <linux/config.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/types.h>
@@ -196,12 +197,16 @@
 
 static inline const char *crypto_tfm_alg_modname(struct crypto_tfm *tfm)
 {
+#ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
 	struct crypto_alg *alg = tfm->__crt_alg;
 	
 	if (alg->cra_module)
 		return alg->cra_module->name;
 	else
 		return NULL;
+#else
+	return NULL;
+#endif
 }
 
 static inline u32 crypto_tfm_alg_type(struct crypto_tfm *tfm)

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