Re: SGI O2 meth: missing sysfs device symlink

[Giuseppe Sacco <giuseppe@eppesuigoccas.homedns.org>]

Il giorno mar, 22/05/2007 alle 14.13 +0200, Giuseppe Sacco ha scritto:
> Il giorno mar, 22/05/2007 alle 13.41 +0200, Giuseppe Sacco ha scritto:
> > Il giorno mar, 22/05/2007 alle 12.09 +0100, Ralf Baechle ha scritto:
> > > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 04:47:26PM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> > > 
> > > Below patch is meant to cure the problem.  It's against HEAD but should
> > > apply to somewhat older problems as well.
> > > 
> > > I appreciate testing asap so I can try to still push this upstream
> > > for 2.6.22.
> > [...]
> > 
> > I may test it against 2.6.18, the standard debian kernel for stable; but
> > I will be on the console only in two days :-(
> 
> It seems the patch doesn't apply on 2.6.18, so I will recompile
> 2.6.22-rc2, but I do not know if it works on my SGI. I never tried it.

I got 2.6.21.1 source, then I applied patch-2.6.22-rc2.bz2 and your
patch. I compiled everything with this command:

# make-kpkg clean
# time make-kpkg --revision 2:2.6.22~rc2 \
-append-to-version -r5k-ip32 --arch-in-name buildpackage

and got this result:

[...]
  CC [M]  net/ipv6/reassembly.o
  CC [M]  net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.o
  CC [M]  net/ipv6/exthdrs.o
net/ipv6/exthdrs.c: In function ‘ipv6_rthdr_rcv’:
net/ipv6/exthdrs.c:390: error: ‘struct sk_buff’ has no member named ‘h’
net/ipv6/exthdrs.c:391: error: ‘struct sk_buff’ has no member named ‘h’
net/ipv6/exthdrs.c:391: error: ‘struct sk_buff’ has no member named ‘h’
net/ipv6/exthdrs.c:398: error: ‘struct sk_buff’ has no member named ‘h’
make[4]: *** [net/ipv6/exthdrs.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** [net/ipv6] Error 2
make[2]: *** [net] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/src/linux-2.6.22-rc2'
make[1]: *** [debian/stamp-build-kernel] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/src/linux-2.6.22-rc2'
make: *** [stamp-buildpackage] Error 2

real    409m49.142s
user    250m33.296s
sys     15m41.356s
sgi:/usr/local/src/linux-2.6.22-rc2# bc