From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Larry Finger Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: b43legacy: fix compile error Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 13:36:55 -0500 Message-ID: <4CC5CE47.2020607@lwfinger.net> References: <1288017690-31248-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndnet.de> <4CC5A301.1080606@lwfinger.net> <4CC5CBC4.7060308@arndnet.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "David S. Miller" , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet To: Arnd Hannemann Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4CC5CBC4.7060308@arndnet.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On 10/25/2010 01:26 PM, Arnd Hannemann wrote: > Am 25.10.2010 17:32, schrieb Larry Finger: >> On 10/25/2010 09:41 AM, Arnd Hannemann wrote: >>> On todays linus tree the following compile error happened to me: >>> >>> CC [M] drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/xmit.o >>> In file included from include/net/dst.h:11, >>> from drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/xmit.c:31: >>> include/net/dst_ops.h:28: error: expected ':', ',', ';', '}' or '__attribute__' before '____cacheline_aligned_in_smp' >>> include/net/dst_ops.h: In function 'dst_entries_get_fast': >>> include/net/dst_ops.h:33: error: 'struct dst_ops' has no member named 'pcpuc_entries' >>> include/net/dst_ops.h: In function 'dst_entries_get_slow': >>> include/net/dst_ops.h:41: error: 'struct dst_ops' has no member named 'pcpuc_entries' >>> include/net/dst_ops.h: In function 'dst_entries_add': >>> include/net/dst_ops.h:49: error: 'struct dst_ops' has no member named 'pcpuc_entries' >>> include/net/dst_ops.h: In function 'dst_entries_init': >>> include/net/dst_ops.h:55: error: 'struct dst_ops' has no member named 'pcpuc_entries' >>> include/net/dst_ops.h: In function 'dst_entries_destroy': >>> include/net/dst_ops.h:60: error: 'struct dst_ops' has no member named 'pcpuc_entries' >>> make[4]: *** [drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/xmit.o] Error 1 >>> make[3]: *** [drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy] Error 2 >>> make[2]: *** [drivers/net/wireless] Error 2 >>> make[1]: *** [drivers/net] Error 2 >>> make: *** [drivers] Error 2 >>> >>> This patch fixes this issue by adding "linux/cache.h" as an include to >>> "include/net/dst_ops.h". >> >> Strange. Compiling b43legacy from the linux-2.6.git tree (git describe is >> v2.6.36-4464-g229aebb) works fine on x86_64. I wonder what is different. > > Exactly the same git describe here. > Maybe your arch includes cache.h already, in my case its a compile for ARM (shmobile). That probably makes the difference. Using Eric's fix that removes the #include should be better. Does it work for you? There are probably a lot more of the system includes that may not be needed. If I send you a patch removing them, could you test? Larry