linux-kernel - Re: [build failure] Re: [GIT PULL] First round of SCSI updates for 2.6.38 merge window

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Date:	Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:33:31 -0500
From:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...e.de>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [build failure] Re: [GIT PULL] First round of SCSI updates for
 2.6.38 merge window

On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 13:21 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...e.de> wrote:
> 
> > This represents the usual round of driver updates (fcoe, lpfc,
> qla2xxx, > zfcp, bnx2i, mpt2sas, megaraid_sas, iscsi, cxgbi and hpsa)
> plus one new > driver (bnx2fc) and as a bonus we move libsas from the
> old libata eh to > the new one paving the way for junking the old one
> (once we can get ipr > converted).
> 
> The new bnx2fc driver does not build with module support disabled:
> 
>  drivers/scsi/bnx2fc/bnx2fc_fcoe.c:1815:17: error: dereferencing
> pointer to incomplete type  drivers/scsi/bnx2fc/bnx2fc_fcoe.c:1815:28:
> error: ‘MODULE_STATE_LIVE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
>   drivers/scsi/bnx2fc/bnx2fc_fcoe.c:1878:17: error: dereferencing
> pointer to incomplete type  drivers/scsi/bnx2fc/bnx2fc_fcoe.c:1878:28:
> error: ‘MODULE_STATE_LIVE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
> 
> and this build breakage has been reported to you two weeks ago:
> 
>  http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/3/2/468

The actual fix is here:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e81460b20107ae83a7541d12b14114ea731a86fc

it just took time to secure agreement on this.  The ultimate fixes to
FCoE will be in the next merge window.

James


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