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[FTBFS] unknown field ‘aio_reserved3’ building User Mode Linux

Bug #163011 reported by TJ on 2007-11-16

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	linux-source-2.6.22 (Ubuntu)	Won't Fix	High	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: linux-source-2.6.22

$ make -j3 O=`pwd`/../uml-gutsy linux ARCH=um SUBARCH=i386

LD arch/um/drivers/ubd.o
/home/all/SourceCode/linux/ubuntu-gutsy/arch/um/os-Linux/aio.c: In function ‘do_aio’:
/home/all/SourceCode/linux/ubuntu-gutsy/arch/um/os-Linux/aio.c:80: error: unknown field ‘aio_reserved3’ specified in initializer
make[2]: *** [arch/um/os-Linux/aio.o] Error 1

Caused by ubuntu-gutsy/arch/um/os-Linux/aio.c::do_aio() trying to initialise the structure-member "aio_reserved3" that doesn't exist in include/linux/aio_abi.h::struct iocb

The fix is a simple patch to remove

--- aio.orig.c 2007-11-16 01:43:14.000000000 +0000
+++ aio.c 2007-11-16 01:45:34.000000000 +0000
@@ -76,8 +76,7 @@
                                .aio_nbytes = len,
                                .aio_offset = offset,
                                .aio_reserved1 = 0,
- .aio_reserved2 = 0,
- .aio_reserved3 = 0 });
+ .aio_reserved2 = 0 });

switch(type){
case AIO_READ:

Tags:

TJ (tj) on 2007-11-16

Changed in linux-source-2.6.22:
importance:	Undecided → High

Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara) on 2007-11-16

Changed in linux-source-2.6.22:
assignee:	nobody → ubuntu-kernel-team
status:	New → Triaged

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TJ (tj) wrote on 2007-11-19:

arch/um/os-Linux/aio.c diff Edit (374 bytes, text/plain)

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Ben Collins (ben-collins) wrote on 2007-11-20:

Building UML is not supported by our source package. As such, this wont be fixed in gutsy kernel, but may already be fixed by the 2.6.24-rc2 tree planned for upload to hardy soon.

Changed in linux-source-2.6.22:
status:	Triaged → Won't Fix

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2008-12-23: Kernel team bugs

Per a decision made by the Ubuntu Kernel Team, bugs will longer be assigned to the ubuntu-kernel-team in Launchpad as part of the bug triage process. The ubuntu-kernel-team is being unassigned from this bug report. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeamBugPolicies for more information. Thanks.