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Date:	Tue, 3 Aug 2010 21:44:09 -0700
From:	Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@...csson.com>
To:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
CC:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	"linux-next@...r.kernel.org" <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Narendra K <Narendra_K@...l.com>,
	Jordan Hargrave <jordan_hargrave@...l.com>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the driver-core tree

On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 12:25:31AM -0400, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> After merging the driver-core tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64
> allmodconfig) failed like this:
> 
> drivers/pci/pci-label.c:100: error: unknown field 'owner' specified in initializer
> drivers/pci/pci-label.c:100: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
> drivers/pci/pci-label.c:105: error: unknown field 'owner' specified in initializer
> drivers/pci/pci-label.c:105: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
> 
> Caused by commit 60cc62ad579afa0eb5bded82e08dd0617d461d52 ("sysfs: Remove
> owner field from sysfs struct attribute") interacting with commit
> 911e1c9b05a8e3559a7aa89083930700a0b9e7ee ("PCI: export SMBIOS provided
> firmware instance and label to sysfs") from the pci tree.
> 
> I applied the following merge fix patch (Jesse, this patch can already be
> applied to the pci tree without problems):
> 
> From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
> Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 14:21:42 +1000
> Subject: [PATCH] pci: update for owner removal from struct device_attribute
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@...csson.com>

Sorry for the trouble. Looks like I missed that by a day.

Guenter

> ---
>  drivers/pci/pci-label.c |    4 ++--
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/pci-label.c b/drivers/pci/pci-label.c
> index 111500e..90c0a72 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/pci-label.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/pci-label.c
> @@ -97,12 +97,12 @@ smbiosinstance_show(struct device *dev,
>  }
>  
>  static struct device_attribute smbios_attr_label = {
> -	.attr = {.name = "label", .mode = 0444, .owner = THIS_MODULE},
> +	.attr = {.name = "label", .mode = 0444},
>  	.show = smbioslabel_show,
>  };
>  
>  static struct device_attribute smbios_attr_instance = {
> -	.attr = {.name = "index", .mode = 0444, .owner = THIS_MODULE},
> +	.attr = {.name = "index", .mode = 0444},
>  	.show = smbiosinstance_show,
>  };
>  
> -- 
> 1.7.1
> 
> -- 
> Cheers,
> Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au
> http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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