Re: linux-next: trivial tree build failure

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Mon Jan 18 2010 - 05:17:31 EST


On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Stephen Rothwell wrote:

> Hi Jiri,
>
> Today's linux-next build (x86_64_allmodconfig) failed like this:
>
> drivers/mfd/ab3100-otp.c: In function 'show_otp':
> drivers/mfd/ab3100-otp.c:101: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> drivers/mfd/ab3100-otp.c:104: error: implicit declaration of function 'seq_printf'
> drivers/mfd/ab3100-otp.c:102: warning: unused variable 'err'
> drivers/mfd/ab3100-otp.c: In function 'ab3100_otp_open':
> drivers/mfd/ab3100-otp.c:116: error: implicit declaration of function 'single_open'
> drivers/mfd/ab3100-otp.c:116: error: 'ab3100_otp_show' undeclared (first use in this function)
> drivers/mfd/ab3100-otp.c: At top level:
> drivers/mfd/ab3100-otp.c:121: error: 'seq_read' undeclared here (not in a function)
> drivers/mfd/ab3100-otp.c:122: error: 'seq_lseek' undeclared here (not in a function)
> drivers/mfd/ab3100-otp.c:123: error: 'single_release' undeclared here (not in a function)
> drivers/mfd/ab3100-otp.c: In function 'ab3100_otp_init_debugfs':
> drivers/mfd/ab3100-otp.c:134: error: 'err' undeclared (first use in this function)
> drivers/mfd/ab3100-otp.c: In function 'ab3100_otp_exit_debugfs':
> drivers/mfd/ab3100-otp.c:140: error: implicit declaration of function 'debugfs_remove_file'
>
> Exposed by commit 8dcafdf0475eb4633401d1f0bf0e0d35e4ebb9d5
> "CONFIG_DEBUG_FS wrongly written as CONFIG_DEBUGFS".

Hmm, mea culpa. I have noticed the build failure myself and notified patch
author about that, but forgot to drop the patch from my tree afterwards.
Sorry.

On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Linus Walleij wrote:

> 2010/1/18 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > Exposed by commit 8dcafdf0475eb4633401d1f0bf0e0d35e4ebb9d5
> > "CONFIG_DEBUG_FS wrongly written as CONFIG_DEBUGFS".
> > I have reverted that commit for today.
>
> I have sent a proper patch to Sam last night, that fix the #ifdef and
> makes the code work.

I have dropped the patch from my tree now, and I am not carrying any
replacement as of now.

--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
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