Bug#1777: Source not compiling properly?

["Bernd S. Brentrup" <bsb@uni-muenster.de>]

Karl Ferguson writes:
>Package: source
>Version: 1.2.13-5
>
>After installing the source package, makeconfigging it to my on needs and
>compiling it, an error pops up while trying drivers/net/ppp.c:
>
>ppp.c: In function `ppp_first_time':
>ppp.c:442: warning: assignment from incompatable pointer type
>ppp.c:446: warning: assignment from incompatable pointer tpye
>
>
>Now, it wont quit at the point - it goes on to finish.  But when booting the
>kernel I get this error:
>
>unregister_netdev: device 'ppp0' unlinked
>unregister_netdev: device 'ppp1' unlinked
>unregister_netdev: device 'ppp2' unlinked
>unregister_netdev: device 'ppp3' unlinked

This one comes up in linux-ppp eveey week, they're not errors. pppd-2.2
allocates interfaces dynamically.

~$ cat /proc/net/dev
Inter-|   Receive                  |  Transmit
 face |packets errs drop fifo frame|packets errs drop fifo colls carrier
    lo:      0    0    0    0    0    14050    0    0    0     0    0
  eth0:1265052    0    0    0    0  1216121    0    0    0    12    0
dummy0: No statistics available.

You won't see this message if it doesn't work :)

BTW: should i close the bug report or wait for pppd's maintainer to do it?

-- Siggy (the middle S.)