[asterisk-bugs] [JIRA] (DAHLIN-390) DAHDI does not compile on kernels >= 5.6

[Juan Carlos Castro y Castro (JIRA)]

     [ https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/DAHLIN-390?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Juan Carlos Castro y Castro closed DAHLIN-390.
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    Resolution: Fixed

The "next" branch has the fixes.

> DAHDI does not compile on kernels >= 5.6
> ----------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: DAHLIN-390
>                 URL: https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/DAHLIN-390
>             Project: DAHDI-Linux
>          Issue Type: Bug
>      Security Level: None
>          Components: General
>    Affects Versions: 3.1.0
>         Environment: Ubuntu 20.04, do apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade so you end up with the latest kernel which is 5.8 at the time of this writing
>            Reporter: Juan Carlos Castro y Castro
>            Assignee: Keith Morgan
>            Severity: Critical
>
> Many functions that deal with the /proc filesystem had their prototypes changed; now they use a differently named structure, with differently named fields, which apperently does the same thing but does nor require a "owner" field.
> This Stack Overflow answer may help: https://stackoverflow.com/a/64932529/110800
> The output of make. This is the git version.
> {noformat}
> make -C /lib/modules/5.8.0-59-generic/build KBUILD_EXTMOD=/home/jcastro/src/pbx/download/dahdi-linux/drivers/dahdi DAHDI_INCLUDE=/home/jcastro/src/pbx/download/dahdi-linux/include DAHDI_MODULES_EXTRA=" " HOTPLUG_FIRMWARE=yes modules DAHDI_BUILD_ALL=m
> make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-5.8.0-59-generic'
> scripts/Makefile.lib:12: 'hostprogs-y' is deprecated. Please use 'hostprogs' instead
> scripts/Makefile.lib:8: 'always' is deprecated. Please use 'always-y' instead
> scripts/Makefile.lib:12: 'hostprogs-y' is deprecated. Please use 'hostprogs' instead
>   CC [M]  /home/jcastro/src/pbx/download/dahdi-linux/drivers/dahdi/xpp/xbus-core.o
> /home/jcastro/src/pbx/download/dahdi-linux/drivers/dahdi/xpp/xbus-core.c: In function ‘xbus_new’:
> /home/jcastro/src/pbx/download/dahdi-linux/drivers/dahdi/xpp/xbus-core.c:1636:6: error: passing argument 4 of ‘proc_create_data’ from incompatible pointer type [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]
>  1636 |      &xbus_read_proc_ops,
>       |      ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>       |      |
>       |      const struct file_operations *
> In file included from /home/jcastro/src/pbx/download/dahdi-linux/drivers/dahdi/xpp/xbus-core.c:28:
> ./include/linux/proc_fs.h:103:31: note: expected ‘const struct proc_ops *’ but argument is of type ‘const struct file_operations *’
>   103 | extern struct proc_dir_entry *proc_create_data(const char *, umode_t,
>       |                               ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> /home/jcastro/src/pbx/download/dahdi-linux/drivers/dahdi/xpp/xbus-core.c:1647:6: error: passing argument 4 of ‘proc_create_data’ from incompatible pointer type [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]
>  1647 |      &proc_xbus_command_ops, xbus);
>       |      ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>       |      |
>       |      const struct file_operations *
> In file included from /home/jcastro/src/pbx/download/dahdi-linux/drivers/dahdi/xpp/xbus-core.c:28:
> ./include/linux/proc_fs.h:103:31: note: expected ‘const struct proc_ops *’ but argument is of type ‘const struct file_operations *’
>   103 | extern struct proc_dir_entry *proc_create_data(const char *, umode_t,
>       |                               ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> /home/jcastro/src/pbx/download/dahdi-linux/drivers/dahdi/xpp/xbus-core.c: In function ‘xbus_core_init’:
> /home/jcastro/src/pbx/download/dahdi-linux/drivers/dahdi/xpp/xbus-core.c:2067:12: error: passing argument 4 of ‘proc_create_data’ from incompatible pointer type [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]
>  2067 |            &xpp_proc_read_ops, NULL);
>       |            ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>       |            |
>       |            const struct file_operations *
> In file included from /home/jcastro/src/pbx/download/dahdi-linux/drivers/dahdi/xpp/xbus-core.c:28:
> ./include/linux/proc_fs.h:103:31: note: expected ‘const struct proc_ops *’ but argument is of type ‘const struct file_operations *’
>   103 | extern struct proc_dir_entry *proc_create_data(const char *, umode_t,
>       |                               ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
> make[3]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:286: /home/jcastro/src/pbx/download/dahdi-linux/drivers/dahdi/xpp/xbus-core.o] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:515: /home/jcastro/src/pbx/download/dahdi-linux/drivers/dahdi/xpp] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [Makefile:1785: /home/jcastro/src/pbx/download/dahdi-linux/drivers/dahdi] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-5.8.0-59-generic'
> make: *** [Makefile:74: modules] Error 2
> {noformat}



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