On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 09:10:52AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > i actually asked about this on either the janitors or newbies > > list the other day -- one of the early examples from the LDD3 > > device drivers book which built fine all this time suddenly > > stopped building, until i explicitly included <linux/sched.h> to > > be able to dereference a pointer to "task_struct": > > > > /home/rpjday/AMD/k/topics/0_hi/hi1.c:15: error: dereferencing pointer to > > incomplete type > > /home/rpjday/AMD/k/topics/0_hi/hi1.c:16: error: dereferencing pointer to > > incomplete type > > > > clearly, until now, that header file was being picked up > > *somewhere*, > > from include/linux/mm.h , yes > > > but not now. > > dammit! > > > so i'm guessing there's going to be code all over the place that > > suddenly needs to add that inclusion of sched.h. > > this is the last known to me bit of compile breakage that was caused by > commit e8edc6e03a5c8562dc70a6d969f732bdb355a7e7 aka > "[PATCH] Detach sched.h from mm.h" > > And after you'll check diffstat and build current kernel for > different archs yourself, I hope you'll take that "all over the > place" back. i didn't mean code *in the kernel* necessarily, merely code representing out-of-tree loadable drivers that will now need to include sched.h that didn't need it before. such as that very example out of LDD3. sorry that i wasn't more clear about that. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ======================================================================== - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/