Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: b43legacy: fix compile error

From: Larry Finger <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:32:17 -0500

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.

Larry