Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758718AbYGPO2e (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:28:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755221AbYGPO2Y (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:28:24 -0400 Received: from accolon.hansenpartnership.com ([76.243.235.52]:57973 "EHLO accolon.hansenpartnership.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754382AbYGPO2X (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:28:23 -0400 Subject: Re: [build fix] Re: [GIT PATCH] SCSI part 1 From: James Bottomley To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , linux-scsi , linux-kernel In-Reply-To: <20080716141805.GB22631@elte.hu> References: <1216138543.3312.60.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080716101634.GA8494@elte.hu> <20080716103337.GA22931@elte.hu> <20080716131543.GA3673@elte.hu> <1216216320.3230.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080716141805.GB22631@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:28:18 -0500 Message-Id: <1216218498.3358.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 (2.22.3.1-1.fc9) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 4525 Lines: 117 On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 16:18 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * James Bottomley wrote: > > > On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 15:15 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > * Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > > > > > scsi_cmnd.h depends on symbols defined in blkdev.h. The fix is to > > > > > include blkdev.h as well. > > > > > > > > that wont work - a better replacement fix is the one below. The > > > > problem is that scsi.h is included even on !CONFIG_BLOCK and then the > > > > BLK_MAX_CDB symbol is meaningless. > > > > > > -v3 .. the new methods need to be under #ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK as well. > > > Note my patch is just a quick RFC, this can probably be done > > > cleaner. > > > > Erm, Ingo, if you'd just follow linux-next instead of your own tree, > > you'd see there's already a fix for this. > > Erm, no. In the merge window i follow upstream -git, not "my tree", and > i searched lkml for the build failure signature and it had nothing > there. Then i looked at the commit and it said that it was created just > 1 day before the merge window started: > > commit feac6a07c4a3578bffd6769bb4927e8a7e1f3ffe > Author: Martin Petermann > AuthorDate: Wed Jul 2 10:56:35 2008 +0200 > Commit: James Bottomley > CommitDate: Sat Jul 12 08:22:34 2008 -0500 > ^^^^^^ > > So i didnt even think of it having hit linux-next so i didnt look into > the linux-next archives. lkml should have been Cc:-ed in this case, It was, that would be this email: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121555252007662 Perhaps now you might see how even you can miss important stuff on such a high volume, low signal to noise ratio list ... > that's where people look for in case of upstream breakages. You would > have saved me some effort via that - please try to do it in the future, > it's very helpful to testers. Not if they miss the email, as you apparently did. > btw., about the technical aspects of the solution, i'm not sure i like > these big #ifdef blocks: > > > --- linux-next-20080708.orig/fs/compat_ioctl.c > > +++ linux-next-20080708/fs/compat_ioctl.c > > @@ -68,9 +68,11 @@ > > #include > > #include > > > > +#ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK > > #include > > #include > > #include > > +#endif > > > > #include > > #include > > @@ -1965,6 +1967,7 @@ COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(GIO_UNISCRNMAP) > > COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(PIO_UNISCRNMAP) > > COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(PIO_FONTRESET) > > COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(PIO_UNIMAPCLR) > > +#ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK > > /* Big S */ > > COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(SCSI_IOCTL_GET_IDLUN) > > COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(SCSI_IOCTL_DOORLOCK) > > @@ -1974,6 +1977,7 @@ COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(SCSI_IOCTL_GET_BUS_NUMB > > COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(SCSI_IOCTL_SEND_COMMAND) > > COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(SCSI_IOCTL_PROBE_HOST) > > COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(SCSI_IOCTL_GET_PCI) > > +#endif > > /* Big T */ > > COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(TUNSETNOCSUM) > > COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(TUNSETDEBUG) > > @@ -2044,6 +2048,7 @@ COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(SIOCGIFVLAN) > > COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(SIOCSIFVLAN) > > COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(SIOCBRADDBR) > > COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(SIOCBRDELBR) > > +#ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK > > /* SG stuff */ > > COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(SG_SET_TIMEOUT) > > COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(SG_GET_TIMEOUT) > > @@ -2068,6 +2073,7 @@ COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(SG_SCSI_RESET) > > COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(SG_GET_REQUEST_TABLE) > > COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(SG_SET_KEEP_ORPHAN) > > COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(SG_GET_KEEP_ORPHAN) > > +#endif > > /* PPP stuff */ > > COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(PPPIOCGFLAGS) > > COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(PPPIOCSFLAGS) > > the clean solution we use everywhere else is to push such #ifdefs into > the headers, to make them generally includable. For example you can > include lockdep.h even if you dont have lockdep enabled, you can include > smp.h even on UP-only files, etc. etc. The problem being that compat stuff only needs to exist for block ioctls if block actually exists. If we're going to have a single giant file for all compat ioctls, then I think we have to fix it the way randy has done. If you want to separate it into say compat_block.h and simply #include that into compat.h then we can fix it more cleanly. James -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/