Sorry.. left out the important part. here's the bulk of the compile
leading to the problem:
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.5.15/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
-Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe
-mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -malign-functions=4 -DMODULE
-DMODVERSIONS -include /usr/src/linux-2.5.15/include/linux/modversions.h
-DKBUILD_BASENAME=file_hdr -c -o file_hdr.o file_hdr.c
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.5.15/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
-Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe
-mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -malign-functions=4 -DMODULE
-DMODVERSIONS -include /usr/src/linux-2.5.15/include/linux/modversions.h
-DKBUILD_BASENAME=inode -c -o inode.o inode.c
inode.c: In function `hfs_prepare_write':
inode.c:242: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.5.15/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
-Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe
-mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -malign-functions=4 -DMODULE
-DMODVERSIONS -include /usr/src/linux-2.5.15/include/linux/modversions.h
-DKBUILD_BASENAME=mdb -c -o mdb.o mdb.c
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.5.15/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
-Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe
-mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -malign-functions=4 -DMODULE
-DMODVERSIONS -include /usr/src/linux-2.5.15/include/linux/modversions.h
-DKBUILD_BASENAME=part_tbl -c -o part_tbl.o part_tbl.c
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gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.5.15/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
-Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe
-mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -malign-functions=4 -DMODULE
-DMODVERSIONS -include /usr/src/linux-2.5.15/include/linux/modversions.h
-DKBUILD_BASENAME=sysdep -c -o sysdep.o sysdep.c
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.5.15/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
-Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe
-mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -malign-functions=4 -DMODULE
-DMODVERSIONS -include /usr/src/linux-2.5.15/include/linux/modversions.h
-DKBUILD_BASENAME=trans -c -o trans.o trans.c
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.5.15/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
-Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe
-mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -malign-functions=4 -DMODULE
-DMODVERSIONS -include /usr/src/linux-2.5.15/include/linux/modversions.h
-DKBUILD_BASENAME=version -c -o version.o version.c
ld -m elf_i386 -r -o hfs.o balloc.o bdelete.o bfind.o bins_del.o binsert.o
bitmap.o bitops.o bnode.o brec.o btree.o catalog.o dir.o dir_cap.o dir_dbl.o
dir_nat.o extent.o file.o file_cap.o file_hdr.o inode.o mdb.o part_tbl.o
string.o super.o sysdep.o trans.o version.o
ld: cannot open inode.o: No such file or directory
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.5.15/fs/hfs'
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