> Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>> On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 10:34 +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 02:43:48PM +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote:
>>>
>>>> Andrew Morton wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc6/2.6.23-rc6-mm1/
>>>>>
>>>>> 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 is a 29MB diff against 2.6.23-rc6.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> <snip>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Andrew,
>>>>
>>>> The 2.6.23-rc6-mm1build fails at
>>>>
>>>> CC drivers/pci/hotplug/rpadlpar_core.o
>>>> CC drivers/pci/hotplug/rpadlpar_sysfs.o
>>>> drivers/pci/hotplug/rpadlpar_sysfs.c:132: error: unknown field `name'
>>>> specified in initializer
>>>> drivers/pci/hotplug/rpadlpar_sysfs.c: In function `dlpar_sysfs_init':
>>>> drivers/pci/hotplug/rpadlpar_sysfs.c:142: error: structure has no member
>>>> named `name'
>>>> make[3]: *** [drivers/pci/hotplug/rpadlpar_sysfs.o] Error 1
>>>> make[2]: *** [drivers/pci/hotplug] Error 2
>>>> make[1]: *** [drivers/pci] Error 2
>>>> make: *** [drivers] Error 2
>>>>
>>> This seems to be occuring across a number of the powerpc systems we test
>>> with. That driver is a power dynamic lpar IO partitioning driver.
>>>
>>> Relevant Cc: added.
>>>
>>
>> That's because somebody is breaking sysfs/kobject interfaces without
>> fixing all users :-) (Fair enough... it's just that we need to make sure
>> whoever takes care of that driver nowadays is aware of the breakage).
>>
>> Ben.
>>
> Hi Andrew,
>
> Using the kobject_set_name function to set the kobject k_name.
