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

From: Larry Finger <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 13:36:55 -0500

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
<linux/dst.h> 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