Re: [PATCH] 2.5.6 PPP deflate breakage on UP

[John Covici]

The following patch also works, but may not be the most elegant in the
world.

--- ppp_deflate.c.orig	Mon Mar 18 03:42:05 2002
+++ ppp_deflate.c	Mon Mar 18 12:28:48 2002
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@
 #include <linux/ppp-comp.h>
 
 #include <linux/zlib.h>
+#include <asm/softirq.h>
+extern asmlinkage void do_softirq();
 
 static spinlock_t comp_free_list_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
 static LIST_HEAD(comp_free_list);

on Sun, 10 Mar 2002 17:43:43 +0100 (MET) Mikael Pettersson <[e-mail]> wrote:

> In kernel 2.5.6, PPP deflate isn't compiled correctly if CONFIG_SMP
> is off: the macros local_bh_enable() and local_bh_disable() aren't
> expanded and instead turn into references to undefined functions.
> The problem is that <linux/smp_lock.h> is insufficient in UP configs.
>
> The patch below adds an #include <linux/interrupt.h> which works
> around this. I'm not sure about <linux/smp_lock.h>: it really doesn't
> look appropriate for the locking primitives being used in ppp_deflate.c.
>
> /Mikael
>
> --- linux-2.5.6/drivers/net/ppp_deflate.c.~1~	Sat Mar  9 12:53:13 2002
> +++ linux-2.5.6/drivers/net/ppp_deflate.c	Sun Mar 10 14:32:04 2002
> @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
>  #include <linux/slab.h>
>  #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
>  #include <linux/init.h>
> +#include <linux/interrupt.h>
>  #include <linux/smp_lock.h>
>  
>  #include <linux/ppp_defs.h>
> -
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         John Covici
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