linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: Tree for Jul 13 (net/core/devlink with Tracing)

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Date:	Wed, 13 Jul 2016 15:42:20 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Cc:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for Jul 13 (net/core/devlink with Tracing)

On Wed, 13 Jul 2016 08:12:16 -0700
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org> wrote:

> On 07/12/16 23:47, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Changes since 20160712:
> >   
> 
> on x86_64:
> (full randconfig file is attached)
> 
> 
>   CC      net/core/devlink.o
> In file included from ../include/trace/define_trace.h:95:0,
>                  from ../include/trace/events/devlink.h:51,
>                  from ../net/core/devlink.c:30:
> ../include/trace/events/devlink.h: In function 'trace_event_get_offsets_devlink_hwmsg':
> ../include/trace/events/devlink.h:25:51: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
>    __string(owner_name, devlink->dev->driver->owner->name)

[snip the rest]

When I remove all references to the owner_name (and that crazy
dereferencing above), it compiles fine. There must be something funky
with that devlink->dev->driver->owner->name part.

-- Steve