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Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 12:22:59 +0200
From: Stephane Wirtel <stephane.wirtel@belgacom.net>
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Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.20-pre3
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about the patch of devfs, why don't add directly this patch in the new 2.4.20-pre3
?



On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 01:18:17AM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Skidley wrote:
> 
> > check.c: In function `devfs_register_disc':
> > check.c:328: structure has no member named `number'
> > check.c:329: structure has no member named `number'
> > check.c: In function `devfs_register_partitions':
> > check.c:361: structure has no member named `number'
> > make[3]: *** [check.o] Error 1
> > make[3]: Leaving directory
> > `/home/skidley/kernel/linux-2.4.20-pre3/fs/partitions'
> > make[2]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
> > make[2]: Leaving directory
> > `/home/skidley/kernel/linux-2.4.20-pre3/fs/partitions'
> > make[1]: *** [_subdir_partitions] Error 2
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/skidley/kernel/linux-2.4.20-pre3/fs'
> > make: *** [_dir_fs] Error 2
> 
> Yeah, I forgot to apply the fix to this one, sorry.
> 
> Here it is:
> 
> Subject: [PATCH] fix current BK tree compilation with devfs enabled
> 
> 
> Not that I care for devfs, but there was at least one report on lkml.
> 
> I tried to also put the devfs_handle_t under CONFIG_DEVFS_FS, but the
> devfs wrappers require it.  And yes, I'm seriously pissed that devfs
> puts wordsize objects everywhere even if not enabled.
> 
> 
> --- linux-2.4.20-bk-20020810/include/linux/genhd.h	Sat Aug 10 14:37:16 2002
> +++ linux/include/linux/genhd.h	Mon Aug 12 23:40:37 2002
> @@ -62,7 +62,9 @@ struct hd_struct {
>  	unsigned long start_sect;
>  	unsigned long nr_sects;
>  	devfs_handle_t de;              /* primary (master) devfs entry  */
> -
> +#ifdef CONFIG_DEVFS_FS
> +	int number;
> +#endif /* CONFIG_DEVFS_FS */
>  #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_STATS
>  	/* Performance stats: */
>  	unsigned int ios_in_flight;
> 
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