Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (135 mails)

[Leo Eraly <leo@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jan Blunck wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 07, Leo Eraly wrote:
>
> > Jan Blunck wrote:
> > > On Mon, Aug 06, Leo Eraly wrote:
> > > > gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/lib/modules/2.6.16.46-0.7-xen/build/include 
> > > > mppLnx26_spinlock_size.c -o mppLnx_Spinlock_Size
> > > ...
> > > > What is the correct way to solve this more permanent? Submit a patch 
> > > > upstream? Fix the package ? .... ?
> > > Fix the broken userspace application that wants to include kernel
> > > headers. This isn't a problem with the kernel but with your package 
> > > sources.
> > Thx! Modifiying the mppLnx26_spinlock_size.c did the trick for the userland 
> > utility but the build of the kernel module fails because 
> > scsi/scsi_request.h was removed from the kernel in SP1.
> >
> > Again something upstream needs to fix.
>
> No. Again this is an issue of the driver.

Yeah , with upstream I was referring to the developers of the RDAC driver.

> Commit: beb40487508290f5d6565598c60a3f44261beef2 
> Author: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Sat, 10 Jun 2006 18:01:03 +0200 
>
>     [SCSI] remove scsi_request infrastructure
>     
>     With Achim patch the last user (gdth) is switched away from scsi_request
>     so we an kill it now.  Also disables some code in i2o_scsi that was
>     broken since the sg driver stopped using scsi_requests.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
>     Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This went into SP1 because of a requested SCSI backport. Go on and fix the
> driver.

I will. Thanks for helping me out.


Kind regards,


Leo

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Leo Eraly
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