Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the final tree (akpmtree related)

[Neil Horman]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 10:07:28PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:40:10 -0500 (EST) David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:52:26 +1100
> > 
> > > And many more similar.
> > > 
> > > Caused (or exposed) by commit 9222aa56c0ce
> > > ("include/net/netprio_cgroup.h: various fixes") from the akpm tree.
> > > 
> > > I have reverted that commit for today.
> > 
> > Andrew, please submit networking bug fixes to the networking maintainers
> > in order to avoid problems like this in the future.
> > 
> > Unlike other subsystems, I guarentee to handle it within 24 hours, often
> > much faster.
> > 
> 
> This is my attempt to address the issues I mentioned last week.  It is
> still under development and doesn't work yet.  I thought it did.
> 
> I'm now trying to get my brain around what that code is doing with
> Kconfig symbols and net_prio_subsys_id.  I'm suspecting it's all to
> make cgroup-subsys-within-a-module appear to work.
> 
> afaict net_prio_subsys_id is an enum if CONFIG_NETPRIO_CGROUP=y and is
> an `extern int' when CONFIG_NETPRIO_CGROUP=m.  It's unclear to me why
> the extern int version or net_prio_subsys_id exists at all, really.
> 
> 
I implemented this code the same way that the net_cls cgroup does.  I'm not at
all sure whats going on in your tree, as its building as both a module and
monolitically in net-next.  I'll get it sorted today though.
Neil

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