Re: Linux 2.4.20-pre2-ac1

[Javier Marcet <jmarcet@pobox.com>]

Hi Alan Cox,
on Wed, 14 Aug 2002 12:34:16 +0000, you wrote:

> Linux 2.4.20-pre2-ac1
> o	Merge 2.4.20-pre2
> 	-	drop change to apic error logging level
> 	-	drop bogus sign cast in spin_is_locked
> o	Fix partition table breakage			(me)

I get this:

make -C partitions
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-pre2-ac1/fs/partitions'
make all_targets
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-pre2-ac1/fs/partitions'
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-pre2-ac1/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=athlon-xp    -nostdinc -I /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.2/include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=check  -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c check.c
check.c: In function `devfs_register_disc':
check.c:328: structure has no member named `number'
check.c:329: structure has no member named `number'
check.c: In function `devfs_register_partitions':
check.c:361: structure has no member named `number'
make[3]: *** [check.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-pre2-ac1/fs/partitions'
make[2]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-pre2-ac1/fs/partitions'
make[1]: *** [_subdir_partitions] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-pre2-ac1/fs'
make: *** [_dir_fs] Error 2

This is whether I enable CONFIG_PARTITION_ADVANCED ( and CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION )
or not. This happens in 2.4.20-pre2 too, while it doesn't either in pre1
nor pre2-ac3.