From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Randy Dunlap Subject: Re: [Staging/p9auth] Feb 26 Next: build failure Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:59:32 -0800 Message-ID: <49A6CA74.7000809@oracle.com> References: <20090226193022.adb78235.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <49A67892.8060006@in.ibm.com> <20090226155355.GA22194@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rcsinet11.oracle.com ([148.87.113.123]:39457 "EHLO rgminet11.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754988AbZBZQ6g (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:58:36 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20090226155355.GA22194@kroah.com> Sender: linux-next-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Greg KH Cc: "Sachin P. Sant" , Stephen Rothwell , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, LKML , ashwin.ganti@gmail.com Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 04:40:10PM +0530, Sachin P. Sant wrote: >> Feb 26 Next tree randconfig build fails with >> >> drivers/staging/p9auth/p9auth.c: In function cap_write: >> drivers/staging/p9auth/p9auth.c:249: error: implicit declaration of >> function current_uid >> drivers/staging/p9auth/p9auth.c:261: error: implicit declaration of >> function prepare_creds >> drivers/staging/p9auth/p9auth.c:261: warning: assignment makes pointer from >> integer without a cast >> drivers/staging/p9auth/p9auth.c:266: error: dereferencing pointer to >> incomplete type >> drivers/staging/p9auth/p9auth.c:267: error: dereferencing pointer to >> incomplete type >> drivers/staging/p9auth/p9auth.c:268: error: implicit declaration of >> function commit_creds >> make[3]: *** [drivers/staging/p9auth/p9auth.o] Error 1 > > Wierd, I thought cred.h would be pulled in with the current include > files. Even if it were, that's not what we want. We want explicit #includes for macros or structs etc. that are used in a source file. > With this .config, if you add: > #include > to drivers/staging/p9auth/p9auth.c does it solve the build error? > > I'll go add it just to be safe :) It needs both cred.h and sched.h in my testing. -- ~Randy