From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Guenter Roeck Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the v4l-dvb tree Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 02:01:25 -0700 Message-ID: <53C4EDE5.2040507@roeck-us.net> References: <20140715132946.771def89@canb.auug.org.au> <53C4BF8E.4010509@roeck-us.net> <20140715155547.25959587@canb.auug.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.active-venture.com ([67.228.131.205]:51149 "EHLO mail.active-venture.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758241AbaGOJB1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2014 05:01:27 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20140715155547.25959587@canb.auug.org.au> Sender: linux-next-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Stephen Rothwell Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 07/14/2014 10:55 PM, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > Hi Guenter, > > On Mon, 14 Jul 2014 22:43:42 -0700 Guenter Roeck wrote: >> >> On 07/14/2014 08:29 PM, Stephen Rothwell wrote: >>> >>> After merging the v4l-dvb tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc ppc64_defconfig) >>> failed like this: >>> >>> arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c:764:2: error: initialization from incompatible pointer type [-Werror] >>> { cpu_smt_mask, powerpc_smt_flags, SD_INIT_NAME(SMT) }, >>> ^ >>> arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c:764:2: error: (near initialization for 'powerpc_topology[0].sd_flags') [-Werror] >>> >>> Caused by commit 6a0b50087a89 ("Merge branch 'patchwork' into >>> to_next"). The change to include/linux/sched.h in this merge commit >>> does not seem to appear in either of the parents of the merge. >>> >>> Its also a change that (when suggested) was shown to cause more >>> problems than it was worth and dropped. I can't imagine how it ended >>> up in the merge commit. >>> >> >> Do you mean b6220ad66 (sched: Fix compiler warnings) ? I thought that was accepted >> a week or so ago. > > That is in the tip tree and includes the fixups to powerpc and arm. I > don't merge the tip tree till well after the v4l-dvb tree. The merge > in the v4l-dvb tree included only the change to include/linus/sched.h > and neither parent fo that merge was based on the tip tree ... > Ah, looks like that is the older version of my patch. You are right, this version did have problems. Thanks, Guenter