Re: 2.5.41 does not build: 8250.c: icount has incomplete type.

From: Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Date: Wed Oct 09 2002 - 03:04:44 EST


On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 04:51:01AM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
> gcc -Wp,-MD,drivers/serial/.8250.o.d -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -Wall
> -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer
> -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2
> -march=i686 -Iarch/i386/mach-generic -nostdinc -iwithprefix include
> -DMODULE -DKBUILD_BASENAME=8250 -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c -o
> drivers/serial/8250.o drivers/serial/8250.c
> In file included from drivers/serial/8250.c:34:
> include/linux/serialP.h:50: field `icount' has incomplete type
> make[3]: *** [drivers/serial/8250.o] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [drivers/serial] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [drivers] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/nick/soft/linux-2.5.41'
> make: *** [stamp-build] Error 2

This should fix it. Committing and sending this patch is currently
waiting on Hu Gang to confirm that the second hunk fixes his problem.

I'm working towards getting rid of serialP.h in 8250.c; its been the
cause of several problems that have configuration-specific thus far.
We really shouldn't need anything from that header.

===== drivers/serial/8250.c 1.13 vs edited =====
--- 1.13/drivers/serial/8250.c Sun Oct 6 00:01:53 2002
+++ edited/drivers/serial/8250.c Wed Oct 9 09:00:53 2002
@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@
 #include <linux/console.h>
 #include <linux/sysrq.h>
 #include <linux/serial_reg.h>
-#include <linux/serialP.h>
 #include <linux/serial.h>
+#include <linux/serialP.h>
 #include <linux/delay.h>
 
 #include <asm/io.h>
@@ -1635,7 +1635,7 @@
         if (up->port.type != PORT_RSA && res_rsa)
                 release_resource(res_rsa);
 
- if (up->port.type == PORT_UNKNOWN)
+ if (up->port.type == PORT_UNKNOWN && res_std)
                 release_resource(res_std);
 }
 

-- 
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html

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