Re: [PATCH] Break the kobject namespace defs into their own header

[David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>]

Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:

> What "ordering problem" is there?  I don't see a build error here, do
> you?

Yes:

  CC      arch/mn10300/kernel/asm-offsets.s
In file included from include/linux/kobject.h:21,
                 from include/linux/sched.h:91,
                 from arch/mn10300/kernel/asm-offsets.c:7:
include/linux/sysfs.h:177: warning: parameter 1 ('type') has incomplete type
  GEN     include/generated/asm-offsets.h
  CALL    scripts/checksyscalls.sh
<stdin>:1526:2: warning: #warning syscall fanotify_init not implemented
<stdin>:1530:2: warning: #warning syscall fanotify_mark not implemented
<stdin>:1534:2: warning: #warning syscall prlimit64 not implemented
  CC      init/main.o
  CC      arch/mn10300/mm/init.o
  CC      arch/mn10300/kernel/process.o
In file included from include/linux/kobject.h:21,
                 from include/linux/sched.h:91,
                 from include/linux/utsname.h:35,
                 from /warthog/am33/linux-2.6-mn10300/arch/mn10300/include/asm/elf.h:15,
                 from include/linux/elf.h:7,
                 from include/linux/module.h:14,
                 from init/main.c:13:
include/linux/sysfs.h:177: warning: parameter 1 ('type') has incomplete type
In file included from include/linux/kobject.h:21,
                 from include/linux/sched.h:91,
                 from arch/mn10300/mm/init.c:13:
include/linux/sysfs.h:177: warning: parameter 1 ('type') has incomplete type
In file included from include/linux/kobject.h:21,
                 from include/linux/sched.h:91,
                 from include/linux/utsname.h:35,
                 from /warthog/am33/linux-2.6-mn10300/arch/mn10300/include/asm/elf.h:15,
                 from include/linux/elf.h:7,
                 from include/linux/module.h:14,
                 from arch/mn10300/kernel/process.c:11:
include/linux/sysfs.h:177: warning: parameter 1 ('type') has incomplete type
...


The problem appears to be that 

	enum kobj_ns_type

is defined in linux/kobject.h but referenced in linux/sysfs.h, which is
included by linux/kobject.h.  Whilst I see a predeclaration at the top of
linux/sysfs.h, my compiler seems to ignore it.

The compiler is:

	gcc version 3.4-am33-04r2-5

which is a supported version according to the compiler-gcc3.h header file.

David