Re: [build failure] Re: [GIT PULL] First round of SCSI updates for2.6.38 merge window

[James Bottomley]

On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 13:21 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > This represents the usual round of driver updates (fcoe, lpfc,
> qla2xxx, > zfcp, bnx2i, mpt2sas, megaraid_sas, iscsi, cxgbi and hpsa)
> plus one new > driver (bnx2fc) and as a bonus we move libsas from the
> old libata eh to > the new one paving the way for junking the old one
> (once we can get ipr > converted).
> 
> The new bnx2fc driver does not build with module support disabled:
> 
>  drivers/scsi/bnx2fc/bnx2fc_fcoe.c:1815:17: error: dereferencing
> pointer to incomplete type  drivers/scsi/bnx2fc/bnx2fc_fcoe.c:1815:28:
> error: âMODULE_STATE_LIVEâ undeclared (first use in this function)
>   drivers/scsi/bnx2fc/bnx2fc_fcoe.c:1878:17: error: dereferencing
> pointer to incomplete type  drivers/scsi/bnx2fc/bnx2fc_fcoe.c:1878:28:
> error: âMODULE_STATE_LIVEâ undeclared (first use in this function)
> 
> and this build breakage has been reported to you two weeks ago:
> 
>  http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/3/2/468

The actual fix is here:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e81460b20107ae83a7541d12b14114ea731a86fc

it just took time to secure agreement on this.  The ultimate fixes to
FCoE will be in the next merge window.

James


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