[BUILD FAILURE 04] Next April 9 : PPC64 randconfig [drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c]

[Josh Boyer]

On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 09:28:23AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
>
> On Apr 9, 2009, at 8:52 AM, Subrata Modak wrote:
>
>> Observed the following build error:
>>
>> CC      drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.o
>> drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c: In function ‘emac_probe’:
>> drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c:2831: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no
>> member named ‘open’
>> drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c:2834: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no
>> member named ‘tx_timeout’
>> drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c:2836: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no
>> member named ‘stop’
>> drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c:2837: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no
>> member named ‘get_stats’
>> drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c:2838: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no
>> member named ‘set_multicast_list’
>> drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c:2839: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no
>> member named ‘do_ioctl’
>> drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c:2841: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no
>> member named ‘hard_start_xmit’
>> drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c:2842: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no
>> member named ‘change_mtu’
>> drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c:2845: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no
>> member named ‘hard_start_xmit’
>> make[3]: *** [drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.o] Error 1
>> make[2]: *** [drivers/net/ibm_newemac] Error 2
>> make[1]: *** [drivers/net] Error 2
>> make: *** [drivers] Error 2
>>
>> Regards--
>> Subrata
>>
>> <randconfig4-ppc64-next20090409.txt>
>
> This is because CONFIG_COMPAT_NET_DEV_OPS isnt set and needs to be for  
> this driver to build.  I've asked the netdev guys about either fixing  
> the driver or adding the proper thing to Kconfig to select  
> CONFIG_COMPAT_NET_DEV_OPS.

Thanks!

If someone has pointers on what needs to be done to fix it, let me know.

josh