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Re: 2.4.26-pre1: SCTP compile error

To: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: 2.4.26-pre1: SCTP compile error
From: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 17:41:30 -0800 (PST)
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx>, Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Sridhar Samudrala wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 04:09:20PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > >...
> > > It contains a big SCTP merge (to match 2.6 API), networking updates,
> > >...
> >
> > I got the compile error forwarded below using gcc 2.95.3 .
> >
> > cu
> > Adrian
> >
> >
> >
> > ...
> > gcc-2.95 -D__KERNEL__ 
> > -I/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.4/linux-2.4.26-pre1-full/include -Wall 
> > -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common 
> > -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 
> > -malign-functions=4   -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=ipv6 
> >  -c -o ipv6.o ipv6.c
> > In file included from ipv6.c:77:
> > /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.4/linux-2.4.26-pre1-full/include/net/sctp/sctp.h:119:
> >  warning: `MSECS_TO_JIFFIES' redefined
> > /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.4/linux-2.4.26-pre1-full/include/net/irda/irda.h:89:
> >  warning: this is the location of the previous definition
>
> I missed this warning as i don't have irda enabled in my config.
> A simple fix would be to rename the macro in sctp.h to
> SCTP_MSECS_TO_JIFFIES.
>
> > ipv6.c: In function `sctp_v6_xmit':
> > ipv6.c:189: request for member `in6_u' in something not a structure or union
> > ipv6.c:189: request for member `in6_u' in something not a structure or union
>
> I am not seeing these errors with either gcc3.2.2 or gcc2.96. But, looking at 
> the
> code, this definitely seems to be a problem. Not sure why the newer versions 
> of
> gcc didn't catch them.

It is my mistake. I don't have CONFIG_SCTP_DBG_MSG enabled and so these lines 
are
compiled out and hence i am not seeing these errors.

Thanks
Sridhar

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