Re: linux-next: block tree build failure

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 08:34:21 +0200 Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 03 2008, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Hi Jens,
> > 
> > Today's linux-next build (powerpc ppc64_defconfig) failed like this:
> > 
> > block/genhd.c: In function 'show_partition':
> > block/genhd.c:718: error: 'struct hd_struct' has no member named 'private'
> > block/genhd.c:719: warning: passing argument 1 of 'seq_puts' from incompatible pointer type
> > block/genhd.c:720: error: 'struct hd_struct' has no member named 'private'
> > 
> > Caused by the merge because commit
> > ddef43a843f620c6742a06633739887a901ec06b ("block: restore original
> > behavior of /proc/partition when there's no partition") added references
> > to the 'private' member.  I removed the offending section of code (see
> > below) assuming the fix referred to in the comment has be done in the
> > block tree.
> 
> I'm in the very midst of updating to latest -git, I'll push it out in 5
> minutes or so. It'll also solve the two latest conflicts you saw.
> 

I get a nasty git reject around disk_seqf_next() from -next-20080902
and have yet to find a fix which doesn't oops all over the place. 

Am presently discommoded.  Please let this be fixed in -next-20080903 :(