Problems compiling kernel 2.5.45
Hi
I am running a mandrake 9.0 system with kernel 2.4.20, and I tried compiling the kernel 2.5.45. And I had some problems, which look like some bugs.
While compiling the ATI Radeon driver I get the messages rivers/video/radeonfb.c: In function `radeon_set_dispsw':drivers/video/radeonfb.c:1578: structure has no member named line_length' drivers/video/radeonfb.c:1579: structure has no member named visual' drivers/video/radeonfb.c:1590: structure has no member named line_length' drivers/video/radeonfb.c:1591: structure has no member named visual' drivers/video/radeonfb.c:1606: structure has no member named line_length' drivers/video/radeonfb.c:1607: structure has no member named visual' drivers/video/radeonfb.c:1619: structure has no member named line_length' drivers/video/radeonfb.c:1620: structure has no member named visual' drivers/video/radeonfb.c: At top level:drivers/video/radeonfb.c:2487: warning: fbcon_radeon8' defined but not used drivers/video/radeonfb.c:598: warning: radeon_read_OF' declared `static' but never defineddrivers/video/radeonfb.c:1710: warning: `radeonfb_set_cmap' defined but not used
make[3]: *** [drivers/video/radeonfb.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [drivers/video] Error 2
make[1]: *** [drivers] Error 2
make: *** [vmlinux] Error 2
Looking at the code, it seems that indeed the struct display has been changed in 2.5.45 but radeonfb.c still refers to non existent members of that struct.
After putting in the old driver in its place I moved on and I got the following error messages in nfs
nclude/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:30:34: linux/intermezzo_lib.h: No such file or directoryinclude/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:31:34: linux/intermezzo_idl.h: No such file or directory
In file included from fs/intermezzo/cache.c:42:include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:49: field remote_version' has incomplete type include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:52: warning: struct izo_ioctl_data' declared inside parameter listinclude/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:52: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want In file included from fs/intermezzo/cache.c:42:include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:399: field fd_version' has incomplete type include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:645: warning: struct izo_rcvd_rec' declared inside parameter list include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:648: warning: struct izo_upcall_hdr' declared inside parameter list include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:652: warning: struct izo_rcvd_rec' declared inside parameter list include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:654: warning: struct izo_rcvd_rec' declared inside parameter list include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:655: warning: struct izo_rcvd_rec' declared inside parameter listinclude/linux/intermezzo_fs.h: In function `izo_ioctl_getdata':include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:727: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:733: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:733: `IZO_IOCTL_VERSION' undeclared (first use in this function)include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:733: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only onceinclude/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:733: for each function it appears in.) include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:738: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:743: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:743: sizeof applied to an incomplete type include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:748: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:754: warning: passing arg 1 of `izo_ioctl_is_invalid' from incompatible pointer type include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:759: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:760: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:760: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:763: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:764: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:764: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:765: warning: implicit declaration of function `size_round'include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:765: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type In file included from fs/intermezzo/cache.c:42:include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h: At top level:include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:777: warning: struct izo_ioctl_data' declared inside parameter list include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:778: warning: struct izo_ioctl_data' declared inside parameter list include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:779: warning: struct izo_ioctl_data' declared inside parameter list include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:862: warning: struct izo_ioctl_data' declared inside parameter listinclude/linux/intermezzo_fs.h: In function `izo_ioctl_packlen':include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:864: sizeof applied to an incomplete type include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:865: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:866: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h: At top level:include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:870: warning: struct izo_ioctl_data' declared inside parameter list include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:871: conflicting types for izo_ioctl_is_invalid'include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:52: previous declaration of `izo_ioctl_is_invalid'include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h: In function `izo_ioctl_is_invalid':include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:872: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:876: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:880: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:884: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:884: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:888: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:888: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:892: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:892: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:896: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:896: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:900: warning: passing arg 1 of `izo_ioctl_packlen' from incompatible pointer type include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:900: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:904: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:905: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:905: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:909: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:910: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:910: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:910: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type In file included from fs/intermezzo/cache.c:42:include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h: At top level:include/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:919: warning: `struct kml_rec' declared inside parameter listinclude/linux/intermezzo_fs.h:920: warning: `struct kml_rec' declared inside parameter list
make[2]: *** [fs/intermezzo/cache.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [fs/intermezzo] Error 2
Again, looking at the sources, it lookes like a genuine error and not a configuration problem.
So I removed this module and when I compiled again I got the error
gcc -Wp,-MD,net/ipv4/.ipmr.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=pentium4 -Iarch/i386/mach-generic -nostdinc -iwithprefix
include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=ipmr -c -o net/ipv4/ipmr.o net/ipv4/ipmr.cnet/ipv4/ipmr.c: In function `ipmr_forward_finish':net/ipv4/ipmr.c:1114: structure has no member named pmtu' net/ipv4/ipmr.c: In function ipmr_queue_xmit':net/ipv4/ipmr.c:1170: structure has no member named `pmtu' make[2]: *** [net/ipv4/ipmr.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [net/ipv4] Error 2
make: *** [net] Error 2
and I could see that pmtu was a member in 2.4.20 but not in 2.5.45.
I am kinda new to compiling and configuring kernels and feel much more
comfortable writing drivers and stacks for RTOSes. So is there anything
obvious I have missed?? Or is it normal with pre-release kernels? Besides i saw a lot of warning messages. Again, is that normal? I mean normally one expects that when a person is changing something in a file, its his/her responsibility to ensure that no warnings are generated with -wall, isn't it so?
Abhishek