2.5.47-bk4 compile failure, due to crypto

2.5.47-bk4 compile failure, due to crypto

[Helge Hafting]

I get this, even if I de-selects all the crypto stuff.
Helge Hafting

make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=net/core
  gcc -Wp,-MD,net/core/.skbuff.o.d -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer
-fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2
-march=i686 -Iarch/i386/mach-generic -nostdinc -iwithprefix include   
-DKBUILD_BASENAME=skbuff -DKBUILD_MODNAME=skbuff   -c -o
net/core/skbuff.o net/core/skbuff.c
In file included from include/net/xfrm.h:6,
                 from net/core/skbuff.c:61:
include/linux/crypto.h: In function `crypto_tfm_alg_modname':
include/linux/crypto.h:202: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
include/linux/crypto.h:205: warning: control reaches end of non-void
function
make[2]: *** [net/core/skbuff.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [net/core] Error 2
make: *** [net] Error 2

Re: 2.5.47-bk4 compile failure, due to crypto

[george anzinger]

The QUICK fix is to turn the offending function into a
"#define"...

-g

Helge Hafting wrote:
> 
> I get this, even if I de-selects all the crypto stuff.
> Helge Hafting
> 
> make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=net/core
>   gcc -Wp,-MD,net/core/.skbuff.o.d -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -Wall
> -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer
> -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2
> -march=i686 -Iarch/i386/mach-generic -nostdinc -iwithprefix include
> -DKBUILD_BASENAME=skbuff -DKBUILD_MODNAME=skbuff   -c -o
> net/core/skbuff.o net/core/skbuff.c
> In file included from include/net/xfrm.h:6,
>                  from net/core/skbuff.c:61:
> include/linux/crypto.h: In function `crypto_tfm_alg_modname':
> include/linux/crypto.h:202: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> include/linux/crypto.h:205: warning: control reaches end of non-void
> function
> make[2]: *** [net/core/skbuff.o] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [net/core] Error 2
> make: *** [net] Error 2
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