linux-kernel - Re: kobject: Fix kobject_rename and !CONFIG

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Date:	Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:06 -0700
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@...l.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>,
	Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@...ibm.com>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kobject: Fix kobject_rename and !CONFIG_SYSFS

Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> writes:

>
> Eric, Randy Dunlap has found that this patch breaks the build when
> CONFIG_SYSFS is not enabled.  Can you please fix it up before I send it
> to Linus?
>
> The exact error is:
> In file included from /local/linsrc/next-20080509/include/linux/kobject.h:21,
>                  from /local/linsrc/next-20080509/include/linux/module.h:16,
>                  from /local/linsrc/next-20080509/include/linux/crypto.h:21,
>                  from
> /local/linsrc/next-20080509/arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets_64.c:7,
>                  from
> /local/linsrc/next-20080509/arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.c:4:
> /local/linsrc/next-20080509/include/linux/sysfs.h: In function
> 'sysfs_rename_dir':
> /local/linsrc/next-20080509/include/linux/sysfs.h:142: error: implicit
> declaration of function 'kobject_set_name'

I will take a look in the morning and see if I can see what is wrong.

Which tree was this error against?  I thought I tested this case,
and I'm wondering if there might be another patch that is hiding
kobject_set_name.

Eric
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