linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] pti: add missing CONFIG

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Date:	Wed, 03 Aug 2011 09:04:15 -0700
From:	J Freyensee <james_p_freyensee@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
CC:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	akpm <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pti: add missing CONFIG_PCI dependency

On 08/03/2011 12:20 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 17:11, Randy Dunlap<rdunlap@...otime.net>  wrote:
>> On Tue, 2 Aug 2011 10:08:34 +0200 Heiko Carstens wrote:
>>
>>> From: Heiko Carstens<heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
>>>
>>> allmodconfig compile fails on s390 because of the new PTI driver:
>>>
>>> drivers/misc/pti.c:407:3: error: implicit declaration of function 'pci_iounmap'
>>> drivers/misc/pti.c:410:3: error: implicit declaration of function 'pci_release_region'
>>>
>>> Add a 'depends on PCI' statement so it doesn't get compiled.
>>>
>>> Cc: J Freyensee<james_p_freyensee@...ux.intel.com>
>>
>> James has already acked my identical patch.
>> The problem seems to be that we don't have a drivers/misc/ maintainter to
>> merge the patch.
>>
>> Anyway:
>> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap<rdunlap@...otime.net>
>
> It's also missing
>
> #include<linux/slab.h>
> #include<linux/uaccess.h>
>

Yes, the other patch and url I sent to Greg yesterday will take care of 
that.

Thanks


> Cfr. http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/buildresult/4429212/
>
> drivers/misc/pti.c:249: error: implicit declaration of function 'kmalloc'
> drivers/misc/pti.c:657: error: implicit declaration of function 'copy_from_user'
> drivers/misc/pti.c:848: error: implicit declaration of function 'kzalloc'
>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
>                          Geert
>
> --
> Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@...ux-m68k.org
>
> In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
> when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
>                                  -- Linus Torvalds


-- 
J (James/Jay) Freyensee
Storage Technology Group
Intel Corporation
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