Re: linux-next: driver-core tree build failure

From: David Brownell
Date: Tue Jul 14 2009 - 03:31:34 EST


On Monday 13 July 2009, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> Today's linux-next build (x86_64 allmodconfig) failed like this:
>
> drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c:220: error: expected '{' before 'const'
> drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c:227: error: 'mtd_groups' undeclared here (not in a function)
>
> Caused by the update to commit ba87b739a1f5dd545679d886b8d193cdede991cf
> ("driver model: constify attribute groups").
>
> I have applied the patch below for today.

That's a good patch, go with it. Sorry; I guess this wasn't
the version I had test-built. My eyes were reporting "static"
as the (expected) initial keyword there; they lied!


> --
> Cheers,
> Stephen Rothwell sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:29:39 +1000
> Subject: [PATCH] driver-core: fix for mtd typo
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
> index 93e6731..05a16be 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
> @@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ struct attribute_group mtd_group = {
> .attrs = mtd_attrs,
> };
>
> -struct const attribute_group *mtd_groups[] = {
> +const struct attribute_group *mtd_groups[] = {
> &mtd_group,
> NULL,
> };
> --
> 1.6.3.3
>
>



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