Compile error in mtdblock-core...

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Tuesday 07 January 2003 10:02, Steven Scholz wrote:
> Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Monday 06 January 2003 16:19, Steven Scholz wrote:
> > > -DKBUILD_BASENAME=mtdblock_core  -c -o mtdblock-core.o mtdblock-core.c
> > > In file included from
> > > /opt/BITKEEPER/Exports/linuxppc_2_4_devel-2003-01-06.test/include/linux
> > >/blk .h:4, from mtdblock-core.c:18:
> > > /opt/BITKEEPER/Exports/linuxppc_2_4_devel-2003-01-06.test/include/linux
> > >/blk dev.h:147: parse error before `struct'
> >
> > Check in blkdev.h, if the define before the struct contains any control
> > characters. Happens sometimes and gcc is not very happy with this. Should
> > not be a problem of mtd, because mtd does not modify blkdev.h.
>
> Hmm, I see. But this only happens after I used the patchin script from MTD
> CSV.
It has nothing to do with patchin. The offending line is 
blkdev.h:147: extern inline int rq_data_dir(struct request *rq)
which is a backport of a 2.5 function

This is also defined in include/linux/mtd/compatmac.h, which is the 
compability header for 2.4/2.5. 

GCC output is not very informative, but with a little intuition and "grep" it 
can be found :)

-- 
Thomas
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