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

[Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>]

Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com> writes:

> On 19 July 2016 at 08:30, Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> wrote:
>> Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> writes:
>>
>>> After merging the wireless-drivers-next tree, today's linux-next build
>>> (powerpc allyesconfig) failed like this:
>>>
>>> drivers/mtd/devices/bcm47xxsflash.c: In function 'bcm47xxsflash_bcma_probe':
>>> drivers/mtd/devices/bcm47xxsflash.c:299:17: error: implicit declaration of function 'ioremap_cache' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
>>>   b47s->window = ioremap_cache(res->start, resource_size(res));
>>>                  ^
>>> drivers/mtd/devices/bcm47xxsflash.c:299:15: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast [-Wint-conversion]
>>>   b47s->window = ioremap_cache(res->start, resource_size(res));
>>>                ^
>>>
>>> Caused by commit
>>>
>>>   57d8f7dd2132 ("bcma: allow enabling serial flash support on non-MIPS SoCs")
>>>
>>> I have reverted that commit for today.
>>
>> Thanks, kbuild bot also notified about this.
>>
>> Rafał, as the merge window is getting really close I would like to
>> revert this for now and we can reapply it once we the problem is fully
>> solved. And we can use my pending branch for build testing the patch
>> with kbuild bot. What do you think?
>
> The simplest fix sounds pretty much as simple as the revert.

The problem is that I don't have much time, I need to send the pull
request to Dave within next few days. The fix might create other
problems so I'm not enthusiastic about iterating with this patch at the
moment. I think it can wait for 4.9.

-- 
Kalle Valo