Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the driver-core tree

From: Greg KH <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 08:52:13 -0700

On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 02:25:31PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> After merging the driver-core tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64
> allmodconfig) failed like this:
> 
> drivers/pci/pci-label.c:100: error: unknown field 'owner' specified in initializer
> drivers/pci/pci-label.c:100: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
> drivers/pci/pci-label.c:105: error: unknown field 'owner' specified in initializer
> drivers/pci/pci-label.c:105: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
> 
> Caused by commit 60cc62ad579afa0eb5bded82e08dd0617d461d52 ("sysfs: Remove
> owner field from sysfs struct attribute") interacting with commit
> 911e1c9b05a8e3559a7aa89083930700a0b9e7ee ("PCI: export SMBIOS provided
> firmware instance and label to sysfs") from the pci tree.
> 
> I applied the following merge fix patch (Jesse, this patch can already be
> applied to the pci tree without problems):

Thanks, your fix looks correct, that field is now gone.

greg k-h