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

From: Jean Delvare
Date: Tue Feb 16 2010 - 04:01:10 EST


Hi Stephen,

On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:39:26 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> After merging the driver-core tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64
> allmodconfig) failed like this:
>
> drivers/i2c/i2c-smbus.c:58: error: 'struct device' has no member named 'sem'
> drivers/i2c/i2c-smbus.c:66: error: 'struct device' has no member named 'sem'
>
> Caused by commit 0819a881db29059d113fc5f019f7c489dea5937d from the
> driver-core tree interacting with commit
> 38f1e8aedf0a238d56fbcd3660fc140b50dbc89a ("i2c: Add SMBus alert support")
> from the i2c tree.
>
> I have applied the following patch for today and will use it as a merge
> fixup for the driver-core tree while necessary.

Thanks for the heads up and the fix. Greg, is there an API I am
supposed to use instead of accessing the device's semaphore/mutex
directly?

--
Jean Delvare
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