Re: 2.4.9 compiler warnings & errors NTFS

From: Anton Altaparmakov (aia21@cam.ac.uk)
Date: Sun Aug 19 2001 - 17:33:42 EST


At 21:54 19/08/01, Joe wrote:
>Okay I tried kernel the patch to 2.4.9 (I applied 2.4.8 patch on top of
>a 2.4.7 kernel then 2.4.9 patch).
>
>The NTFS module wont build in 2.4.9. It seems that there is a missing
>include file in fs/ntfs/unistr.c . After I added
>
>#include <linux/fs.h>
>
>to the file it seems to have fixed the problem. (patch at bottom of
>mail)

Yes. Known problem. This is correct fix. You must be the 50th person
sending a patch by now... (-;

Cheers,

Anton

>Joe
>
>The following is the error before I added the include:
>
>make[3]: Circular passthrough.h <- hwaccess.h dependency dropped.
>namei.c: In function `msdos_lookup':
>namei.c:237: warning: implicit declaration of function `fat_brelse'
>namei.c: In function `msdos_add_entry':
>namei.c:266: warning: implicit declaration of function
>`fat_mark_buffer_dirty'
>unistr.c: In function `ntfs_collate_names':
>unistr.c:99: warning: implicit declaration of function `min'
>unistr.c:99: parse error before `unsigned'
>unistr.c:99: parse error before `)'
>unistr.c:97: warning: `c1' might be used uninitialized in this function
>unistr.c: At top level:
>unistr.c:118: parse error before `if'
>unistr.c:123: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `c1'
>unistr.c:123: `name1' undeclared here (not in a function)
>unistr.c:123: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
>unistr.c:124: parse error before `if'
>make[2]: *** [unistr.o] Error 1
>make[1]: *** [_modsubdir_ntfs] Error 2
>make: *** [_mod_fs] Error 2
>cp: cannot stat `ntfs.o': No such file or directory
>
>
>This is the error after I added the include. (It compiled too)
>
>sym53c8xx.c: In function `ncr_soft_reset':
>sym53c8xx.c:6994: warning: `istat' might be used uninitialized in this
>function
>make[3]: Circular passthrough.h <- hwaccess.h dependency dropped.
>namei.c: In function `msdos_lookup':
>namei.c:237: warning: implicit declaration of function `fat_brelse'
>namei.c: In function `msdos_add_entry':
>namei.c:266: warning: implicit declaration of function
>`fat_mark_buffer_dirty'
>dir.c: In function `umsdos_readdir_x':
>dir.c:142: warning: passing arg 3 of `fat_readdir' from incompatible
>pointer type
>dir.c: In function `UMSDOS_readdir':
>dir.c:315: warning: passing arg 5 of `umsdos_readdir_x' from
>incompatible pointer type
>ioctl.c: In function `UMSDOS_ioctl_dir':
>ioctl.c:146: warning: passing arg 3 of `fat_readdir' from incompatible
>pointer type
>rdir.c: In function `UMSDOS_rreaddir':
>rdir.c:70: warning: passing arg 3 of `fat_readdir' from incompatible
>pointer type
>
>################## patch
>
>--- fs/ntfs/unistr.c Sun Aug 19 12:31:03 2001
>+++ linux-test/fs/ntfs/unistr.c Sun Aug 19 13:32:46 2001
>@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@
> #include <linux/string.h>
> #include <asm/byteorder.h>
>
>+#include <linux/fs.h>
>+
> #include "unistr.h"
> #include "macros.h"
>
>
>
>
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