From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the driver-core tree Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 00:00:01 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20100518164520.7e9652b1.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from out01.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.231]:56089 "EHLO out01.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754833Ab0ERHAN (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 May 2010 03:00:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20100518164520.7e9652b1.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> (Stephen Rothwell's message of "Tue\, 18 May 2010 16\:45\:20 +1000") Sender: linux-next-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Stephen Rothwell Cc: Greg KH , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro Stephen Rothwell writes: > Hi Greg, > > After merging the driver-core tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc > ppc64_defconfig) failed like this: > > fs/sysfs/mount.c: In function 'sysfs_exit_ns': > fs/sysfs/mount.c:160: error: 'S_BIAS' undeclared (first use in this function) > > Caused by commit c80e63f000aa7cf73a430b2cb57dbbb91554a847 ("sysfs: > Implement sysfs tagged directory support") from the driver-core tree > interacting with commit f3ffc7acb6a6ebec0a9e660d9211ed048d7e90f5 ("get > rid of S_BIAS") from the vfs tree. > > I don't know how to fix this, so I just commented the code out for now > (see below). Please someone supply a correct fix. > > [Al, I notice that the "get rid of S_BIAS" patch has an author date of > March 22 - it would have been nice if it had been in linux-next during > the last two months so that we could have had a fix for this some time > ago.] Stephen what is the easiest way to get a copy of Al's tree so I can take a look to see what needs to happen? Eric