On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 09:04:02PM +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> The build fails with following error
>
> CC drivers/pci/hotplug/rpadlpar_sysfs.o
> drivers/pci/hotplug/rpadlpar_sysfs.c:133: error: initializer element is not constant
> drivers/pci/hotplug/rpadlpar_sysfs.c:133: error: (near initialization for `dlpar_io_kset.kobj.parent')
> drivers/pci/hotplug/rpadlpar_sysfs.c:133: error: initializer element is not constant
> drivers/pci/hotplug/rpadlpar_sysfs.c:133: error: (near initialization for `dlpar_io_kset.kobj')
> drivers/pci/hotplug/rpadlpar_sysfs.c:134: error: unknown field `ktype' specified in initializer
> drivers/pci/hotplug/rpadlpar_sysfs.c:134: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
> make[3]: *** [drivers/pci/hotplug/rpadlpar_sysfs.o] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [drivers/pci/hotplug] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [drivers/pci] Error 2
> make: *** [drivers] Error 2
>
> The patch, gregkh-driver-kset-convert-pci-hotplug-to-use-kset_create_and_register.patch
> is causing the build failure.
Actually, in looking at that file some more, the whole way that file
creates sysfs files and uses them is so messed up it's not funny (get
the return value of writing to a file by reading from it? WTF?)
I'll go clean up all this crap now that we can do simple kobject
attributes easier...
thanks,
greg k-h
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