Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the nvdimm tree

From: Dan Williams
Date: Thu Jul 21 2016 - 17:33:10 EST


On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 11:13 PM, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>
> After merging the nvdimm tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
> ppc64_defconfig) failed like this:
>
> arch/powerpc/sysdev/axonram.c: In function 'axon_ram_direct_access':
> arch/powerpc/sysdev/axonram.c:151:9: error: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast [-Werror=int-conversion]
> *kaddr = bank->io_addr + offset;
> ^
>
> Caused by commit
>
> 6e9c9dda79d9 ("pmem: kill __pmem address space")
>
> I have used the nvdimm tree from next-20160720 for today.

Sorry about that. I had received a positive build notification from
the kbuild robot for ppc64_defconfig, but it seems that was a false
positive.

I've fixed it up and refreshed the branch.