linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] FRV: Make BSG declarations dependent on CONFIG

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Date:	Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:30:21 -0500
From:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...elEye.com>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	torvalds@...l.org, akpm@...l.org, jens.axboe@...cle.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] FRV: Make BSG declarations dependent on CONFIG_BLOCK

On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 15:44 +0100, David Howells wrote:
> James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...elEye.com> wrote:
> 
> > Are you sure you're testing with git head?  CONFIG_BLK_DEV_BSG cannot be
> > set unless CONFIG_BLOCK is (which was a bug in previous releases now
> > fixed in git head ... unless the fix has gone wrong?).
> 
> Neither CONFIG_BLK_DEV_BSG nor CONFIG_BLOCK are set.  The problem is that the
> stub BSG functions refer to undefined structures when CONFIG_BLOCK=n.

Hmm, then isn't the fix to add a struct request_queue; and other
definitions above the stub functions?

What is the file that's causing this actual problem ... as in what still
needs to pull in the block headers if CONFIG_BLOCK=n (or more properly,
could it also need to use the bsg stub functions?)

James


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