linux-kernel - Re: build issue #30 for v2.6.32-rc5 :linux/dst.h:520: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type

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Date:	Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:41:12 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@....de>
Cc:	Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net>,
	"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: build issue #30 for v2.6.32-rc5 :linux/dst.h:520: error:
 dereferencing pointer to incomplete type

On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:35:07 +0200 Toralf Förster wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> the build (.config attached) failed, make ends with :
> ...
>   CC [M]  drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.o
> In file included from drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_int.h:62,
>                  from drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c:27:
> include/linux/dst.h: In function 'dst_bio_to_cmd':
> include/linux/dst.h:520: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> include/linux/dst.h:520: error: 'BIO_POOL_BITS' undeclared (first use in this function)
> include/linux/dst.h:520: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> include/linux/dst.h:520: error: for each function it appears in.)
> include/linux/dst.h:521: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> include/linux/dst.h:522: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> include/linux/dst.h:525: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> make[3]: *** [drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.o] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [drivers/net/vmxnet3] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [drivers/net] Error 2
> make: *** [drivers] Error 2
> 
> The build was made with :
> $>make randconfig; make clean; make
> 
> Here's the config:


Hi,
I've already posted a vmxnet3 driver patch for this (yesterday).

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~Randy
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