Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] bridge: fix build for CONFIG_SYSFS disabled

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 10:56:54 -0700

On Mon, 17 May 2010 09:17:56 -0700
Randy Dunlap <[email-masked]> wrote:

> From: Randy Dunlap <[email-masked]>
> 
> Fix build when CONFIG_SYSFS is not enabled:
> 
> net/bridge/br_if.c:136: error: 'struct net_bridge_port' has no member named 'sysfs_name'
> 
> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  net/bridge/br_if.c |    2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> --- linux-next-20100517.orig/net/bridge/br_if.c
> +++ linux-next-20100517/net/bridge/br_if.c
> @@ -133,7 +133,9 @@ static void del_nbp(struct net_bridge_po
>  	struct net_bridge *br = p->br;
>  	struct net_device *dev = p->dev;
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS
>  	sysfs_remove_link(br->ifobj, p->sysfs_name);
> +#endif
>  
>  	dev_set_promiscuity(dev, -1);
>  

I don't like peppering code with #ifdef like this.

Turns out that in this place sysfs_name is always the same
as the device name so instead:

--- a/net/bridge/br_if.c	2010-05-17 10:40:49.808031840 -0700
+++ b/net/bridge/br_if.c	2010-05-17 10:49:47.767669246 -0700
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ static void del_nbp(struct net_bridge_po
 	struct net_bridge *br = p->br;
 	struct net_device *dev = p->dev;
 
-	sysfs_remove_link(br->ifobj, p->sysfs_name);
+	sysfs_remove_link(br->ifobj, p->dev->name);
 
 	dev_set_promiscuity(dev, -1);

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