linux-ext4 - Re: ext4 still busted on ext4

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0805291638390.2696@anakin>
Date:	Thu, 29 May 2008 16:40:42 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext4 still busted on ext4

On Thu, 29 May 2008, Jan Kara wrote:
> > /usr/src/devel/fs/ext4/mballoc.c: In function 'mb_find_next_bit':
> > /usr/src/devel/fs/ext4/mballoc.c:399: error: implicit declaration of function 'generic_find_next_le_bit'
> > 
> > This has been happening for months.
>   Is there anything wrong with the obvious fix (below)? I don't have a
> way to even compile-test this...

Yes. Including the header only provides the prototype of
generic_find_next_le_bit(), not the actual implementation. So it will
still fail at link time.

There exists a patch to fix it, but I haven't tested it yet. Will do (when
time permits), hopefully before 2.6.26...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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