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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>,
	dhowells@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] frv: fix fallout from "remove sched.h from mm.h" patch
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:51:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070629135130.cf977168.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706290904420.13877@localhost.localdomain>

On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:10:52 -0400 (EDT)
"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com> wrote:

> > Please provide changelogs.
> >
> > I assume this patch fixes some build error or something.

I am still awaiting a description of what this patch does.

>   i actually asked about this on either the janitors or newbies list
> the other day -- one of the early examples from the LDD3 device
> drivers book which built fine all this time suddenly stopped building,
> until i explicitly included <linux/sched.h> to be able to dereference
> a pointer to "task_struct":
> 
> /home/rpjday/AMD/k/topics/0_hi/hi1.c:15: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> /home/rpjday/AMD/k/topics/0_hi/hi1.c:16: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type

I'll proceed, assuming that the patch fixes the above build errors.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-06-29 20:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-28 14:09 [PATCH] frv: fix fallout from "remove sched.h from mm.h" patch Alexey Dobriyan
2007-06-28 22:12 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-29 13:10   ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-06-29 14:58     ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-06-29 15:34       ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-06-29 20:51     ` Andrew Morton [this message]

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