From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262215AbUEWEid (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 May 2004 00:38:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262238AbUEWEid (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 May 2004 00:38:33 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:39558 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262215AbUEWEic (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 May 2004 00:38:32 -0400 Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 21:35:25 -0700 From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: Mike Houston Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.6-bk9 - compile failure if sysfs disabled Message-Id: <20040522213525.31be9c82.rddunlap@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040522232628.7599ae93.mikeserv@bmts.com> References: <20040522232628.7599ae93.mikeserv@bmts.com> Organization: OSDL X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.8a (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 22 May 2004 23:26:28 -0400 Mike Houston wrote: | If sysfs is disabled in the config under pseudo filesystems, | | lib/kobject.c: In function `kobject_rename': | lib/kobject.c:395: error: void value not ignored as it ought to be | make[1]: *** [lib/kobject.o] Error 1 | make: *** [lib] Error 2 | | Line 395 is this: | error = sysfs_rename_dir(kobj, new_name); Fix was posted Friday 2004-05-21 at 14:55 by Maneesh Soni. Please check your favorite lkml archive for the patch. | Now, before anyone chides me for blindly disabling sysfs, I only came across this in helping someone else, who erroneously disabled it, solve this build failure :-) | | My apologies if this is already known or expected. It just seems to me that it ought not to end in a build failure and is possibly something you folks would like to know about. | | Note that I'm not saying this started in -bk9 because I've never previously compiled one without sysfs. This is, however, what the original user was building. BTW, please tell your sylpheed client to wrap lines around 70 characters each instead of flowing them longer. -- ~Randy