Re: [BUG] implicit declaration of kfree/kzalloc in i2c-i801.c onAlpha

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Tue Jan 04 2011 - 17:14:57 EST


On Tue, 4 Jan 2011 22:56:18 +0200 Pekka Enberg wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Matt Turner <mattst88@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 1:18 AM, Bob Tracy <rct@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Another 2.6.37-rc8 build failure on alpha:
> >>
> >> (...)
> >>  CC [M]  drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.o
> >> drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.c: In function 'i801_probe':
> >> drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.c:737: error: implicit declaration of function 'kzalloc'
> >> drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.c:737: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
> >> drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.c:855: error: implicit declaration of function 'kfree'
> >> make[3]: *** [drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.o] Error 1
> >> make[2]: *** [drivers/i2c/busses] Error 2
> >> make[1]: *** [drivers/i2c] Error 2
> >> make: *** [drivers] Error 2
> >>
> >> --Bob
> >
> > Is this specific to alpha? I wonder why we don't see this on other platforms?
>
> The x86 version of <asm/pci.h> includes <linux/slab.h> which hides the
> problem on x86 at least. There was a big cleanup of implicit
> <linux/slab.h> inclusions few months ago which has exposed the
> problem.
>
> It's a bug in the driver, just add the include there.

exactly.

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