linux-kernel - Re: + git-net-fix-pasemi_mac.patch added to -mm tree

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Message-Id: <20070925.230251.120461813.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:02:51 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: + git-net-fix-pasemi_mac.patch added to -mm tree

From: akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:33:54 -0700

> Subject: git-net: fix pasemi_mac
> From: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> drivers/net/pasemi_mac.c: In function .$,1rx.(Bpasemi_mac_probe.$,1ry.(B:
> drivers/net/pasemi_mac.c:1153: error: conflicting types for .$,1rx.(Bmac.$,1ry.(B
> drivers/net/pasemi_mac.c:1151: error: previous declaration of .$,1rx.(Bmac.$,1ry.(B was here
> drivers/net/pasemi_mac.c:1170: error: incompatible types in assignment
> drivers/net/pasemi_mac.c:1172: error: request for member .$,1rx.(Bpdev.$,1ry.(B in
> something not a structure or union
> 
> In the function
> static int __devinit
> pasemi_mac_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)
> {
> <snip>
> struct pasemi_mac *mac;
> int err;
> DECLARE_MAC_BUF(mac);
> 
> introduction of mac as var [18] triggers the build failure, so in the below
> patch renaming mac as mac_buf is done, because it is used to print the mac
> address using the newly introduced print_mac function.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>

Applied to net-2.6.24, thanks!
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