Re: linux-next: block tree build failure

[Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>]

On Wed, Sep 03 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 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 :(

I've updated for-2.6.28 (and thus for-next and for-akpm), we also had a
couple of merge errors that resulted in bad bisect compiles. So I think
it should be ok now.

-- 
Jens Axboe