problem building 2.4.6 pre 6 + freevxfs

problem building 2.4.6 pre 6 + freevxfs

[Giampaolo Gallo]

gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/u1/usr.src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
-Wno-traphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe
-mpreferred-stack-bdary=2 -march=i686    -c -o vxfs_inode.o vxfs_inode.c
vxfs_inode.c:50: `generic_file_llseek' undeclared here (not in a
function)
vxfs_inode.c:50: initializer element is not constant
vxfs_inode.c:50: (near initialization for `vxfs_file_operations.llseek')
make[3]: *** [vxfs_inode.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/u1/usr.src/linux/fs/freevxfs'
make[2]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/u1/usr.src/linux/fs/freevxfs'
make[1]: *** [_subdir_freevxfs] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/u1/usr.src/linux/fs'
make: *** [_dir_fs] Error 2

Re: problem building 2.4.6 pre 6 + freevxfs

[Christoph Hellwig]

Hi Giampaolo,

In article <993718178.8885.0.camel@castle> you wrote:
> gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/u1/usr.src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
> -Wno-traphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe
> -mpreferred-stack-bdary=2 -march=i686    -c -o vxfs_inode.o vxfs_inode.c
> vxfs_inode.c:50: `generic_file_llseek' undeclared here (not in a
> function)
> vxfs_inode.c:50: initializer element is not constant
> vxfs_inode.c:50: (near initialization for `vxfs_file_operations.llseek')

Just remove the complete line - generic_file_llseek doesn't exist in
2.4.6-pre6 and it's appeareance seems to be an merge error.

	Christoph

-- 
Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.

Re: problem building 2.4.6 pre 6 + freevxfs

[Alan Cox]

> > function)
> > vxfs_inode.c:50: initializer element is not constant
> > vxfs_inode.c:50: (near initialization for `vxfs_file_operations.llseek')
> 
> Just remove the complete line - generic_file_llseek doesn't exist in
> 2.4.6-pre6 and it's appeareance seems to be an merge error.

Arghhh my fault. I thought I'd sent Linus generic_file_llseek - apologies
I'll fix that one