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SubjectRe: linux-next: build failure after merge of the staging-next tree
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 10:20:48AM +1000, Neil Brown wrote:
> On Fri, 21 May 2010 16:36:55 -0700
> Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 03:30:20PM +1000, Neil Brown wrote:
> > > On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 07:43:40 -0700
> > > Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 03:52:05PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > > > > Hi Greg,
> > > > >
> > > > > After merging the staging-next tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64
> > > > > allmodconfig) failed like this:
> > > > >
> > > > > drivers/md/md.c: In function 'level_store':
> > > > > drivers/md/md.c:3029: error: too few arguments to function 'sysfs_get_dirent'
> > > > >
> > > > > Caused by commit 262f8e4937e7b4a587923ca3c039a184668f49ec ("sysfs:
> > > > > Implement sysfs tagged directory support") from the driver-core tree
> > > > > interacting with commit fecc531e3cc0de60514d326c7d82f1075ed55888 ("md:
> > > > > manage redundancy group in sysfs when changing level") from the md.
> > > > >
> > > > > I have applied this fixup patch for today and can carry it as necessary.
> > > > >
> > > > > [This could have been avoided, of course, by creating a new API (maybe
> > > > > sysfs_get_dirent_tagged) and implementing the old API in terms of that].
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for the fixup.
> > >
> > > hi Greg,
> > > I'm assuming that you will submit you patch queue to Linus first, then I
> > > will create a merge which fixes this issue and ask Linus to pull that - so
> > > everything is all still bisectable without me rebasing.
> > >
> > > If you are OK with that, please let me know when you have submitted your
> > > queue.. I'll try to keep and eye open, but I might miss it...
> >
> > The drivercore queue is now in Linus's tree.
>
> Thanks Greg.
> I've created a merge which resolves the sysfs_get_dirent issue and sent Linus
> a pull request.

wonderful.

> > Oh, you missed a kref_set() usage in the tree as well, you might want to
> > fix that up also.
>
> That would be the one in fs/ceph ??
> Sage knows about that and presumably has a fix queued.
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/3/17/224

Ah, yes, I thought I had remembered something about that.

greg k-h


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