From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262176AbUEWD0r (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 May 2004 23:26:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262194AbUEWD0r (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 May 2004 23:26:47 -0400 Received: from cathy.bmts.com ([216.183.128.202]:948 "EHLO cathy.bmts.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262176AbUEWD0q (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 May 2004 23:26:46 -0400 Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 23:26:28 -0400 From: Mike Houston To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: 2.6.6-bk9 - compile failure if sysfs disabled Message-Id: <20040522232628.7599ae93.mikeserv@bmts.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.10 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-bmts-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-bmts-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-MailScanner-From: mikeserv@bmts.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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); 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. Thanks folks (for everything you do), Mike