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

Peter Zijlstra
2011-10-05T08:46:34Z

On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 17:25 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> After merging the tip tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64 allmodconfig)
> failed like this:
>
> net/rds/ib_rdma.c: In function 'rds_ib_reuse_fmr':
> net/rds/ib_rdma.c:272:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'llist_del_first' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
> net/rds/ib_rdma.c:272:6: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast [enabled by default]
> net/rds/ib_rdma.c: In function 'rds_ib_flush_mr_pool':
> net/rds/ib_rdma.c:671:4: error: implicit declaration of function 'llist_add_batch' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
> cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
>
> Caused by commit 1230db8e1543 ("llist: Make some llist functions inline")
> interacting with commit 1bc144b62524 ("net, rds, Replace xlist in
> net/rds/xlist.h with llist") from the net tree. The former commit
> removes the declarations of llist_del_first() and llist_add_batch() with
> no explanation (and probably by accident since the definitions still
> exist).

Ugh yes, my bad. Ingo objected to inlining all those functions and I
then screwed up. There are no users of those two functions in my tree.