linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.19-rc6-mm2

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Date:	Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:30:58 -0800
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@...land.pl>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc6-mm2

On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 12:35:43PM +0100, Mariusz Kozlowski wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 	When CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD is not set then this happens:
> 
>   CC      kernel/module.o
> kernel/module.c:852: error: `initstate' undeclared here (not in a function)
> kernel/module.c:852: error: initializer element is not constant
> kernel/module.c:852: error: (near initialization for `modinfo_attrs[2]')
> make[1]: *** [kernel/module.o] Error 1
> make: *** [kernel] Error 2
> 
> Reference to 'initstate' should stay under #ifdef CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD
> as its definition I guess.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@...land.pl>
> 
> --- linux-2.6.19-rc6-mm2-a/kernel/module.c      2006-11-28 12:17:09.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6.19-rc6-mm2-b/kernel/module.c      2006-11-28 12:05:01.000000000 +0100
> @@ -849,8 +849,8 @@ static inline void module_unload_init(st
>  static struct module_attribute *modinfo_attrs[] = {
>         &modinfo_version,
>         &modinfo_srcversion,
> -       &initstate,
>  #ifdef CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD
> +       &initstate,
>         &refcnt,
>  #endif

Kay, is this correct?  I think we still need this information exported
to userspace, even if we can't unload modules, right?

thanks,

greg k-h
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