Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.7 does not compile (jfs errors)

[Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>]

On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 08:39, Perlbroker wrote:

> CC [M]  fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.o
> fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c: In function `add_index':
> fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c:388: parse error before `struct'
> fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c:389: `temp_table' undeclared (first use in this function)
> fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c:389: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c:389: for each function it appears in.)
> make[3]: *** [fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.o] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [fs/jfs] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [fs] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.7'

This was reported in another thread by Tomas Szepe.  I don't know why
this sometimes compiles cleanly, but this patch should fix it:

diff -urp linux-2.6.7/fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c linux/fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c
--- linux-2.6.7/fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c	2004-06-16 07:38:20.244688936 -0500
+++ linux/fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c	2004-06-16 07:46:38.210986552 -0500
@@ -374,6 +374,8 @@ static u32 add_index(tid_t tid, struct i
 		return index;
 	}
 	if (index == (MAX_INLINE_DIRTABLE_ENTRY + 1)) {
+		struct dir_table_slot temp_table[12];
+
 		/*
 		 * It's time to move the inline table to an external
 		 * page and begin to build the xtree
@@ -385,7 +387,6 @@ static u32 add_index(tid_t tid, struct i
 		 * Save the table, we're going to overwrite it with the
 		 * xtree root
 		 */
-		struct dir_table_slot temp_table[12];
 		memcpy(temp_table, &jfs_ip->i_dirtable, sizeof(temp_table));
 
 		/*

-- 
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center