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SubjectRe: [2.6.24-rc6-mm1]Build failure in drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 10:03:05PM +0530, Sudhir Kumar wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> Kernel build fails on my machine with error :
>
>
> LD drivers/net/ehea/built-in.o
> CC [M] drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.o
> drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c: In function ???ehea_driver_sysfs_add???:
> drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c:2812: error: ???struct device_driver??? has no
> member named ???kobj???
> drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c:2815: error: ???struct device_driver??? has no
> member named ???kobj???
> drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c:2818: error: ???struct device_driver??? has no
> member named ???kobj???
> drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c: In function ???ehea_driver_sysfs_remove???:
> drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c:2830: error: ???struct device_driver??? has no
> member named ???kobj???
> make[3]: *** [drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.o] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [drivers/net/ehea] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [drivers/net] Error 2
> make: *** [drivers] Error 2
>
> The structure device_driver(in device.h) has a member struct driver_private which
> contains the member kobj (according to drivers/base/base.h).
> But in device.h struct driver_private has been declared localy and
> neither defined nor included from base.h.
> So my effort to use driver->driver_private->obj also does not work.
> (I am surprised from where do you access the struct device_driver)

That is because a driver should not be accessing such a field.

And especially not in this manner, why would this driver be creating a
symlink that has already been created by the driver core? This whole
thing can just be removed with no problems. Can you try just removing
the ehea_driver_sysfs_add and ehea_driver_sysfs_remove functions to
verify this as I don't have the hardware present to test it out.

thanks,

greg k-h


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