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Message-Id: <1190109772.6403.79.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:02:51 +1000
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To: Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>
Cc: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 10:34 +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 02:43:48PM +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote:
> > Andrew Morton wrote:
> > >ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc6/2.6.23-rc6-mm1/
> > >
> > >2.6.23-rc6-mm1 is a 29MB diff against 2.6.23-rc6.
> > >
> > >
> > <snip>
> >
> > Hi Andrew,
> >
> > The 2.6.23-rc6-mm1build fails at
> >
> > CC drivers/pci/hotplug/rpadlpar_core.o
> > CC drivers/pci/hotplug/rpadlpar_sysfs.o
> > drivers/pci/hotplug/rpadlpar_sysfs.c:132: error: unknown field `name'
> > specified in initializer
> > drivers/pci/hotplug/rpadlpar_sysfs.c: In function `dlpar_sysfs_init':
> > drivers/pci/hotplug/rpadlpar_sysfs.c:142: error: structure has no member
> > named `name'
> > make[3]: *** [drivers/pci/hotplug/rpadlpar_sysfs.o] Error 1
> > make[2]: *** [drivers/pci/hotplug] Error 2
> > make[1]: *** [drivers/pci] Error 2
> > make: *** [drivers] Error 2
>
> This seems to be occuring across a number of the powerpc systems we test
> with. That driver is a power dynamic lpar IO partitioning driver.
>
> Relevant Cc: added.
That's because somebody is breaking sysfs/kobject interfaces without
fixing all users :-) (Fair enough... it's just that we need to make sure
whoever takes care of that driver nowadays is aware of the breakage).
Ben.
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