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

Samuel Ortiz
2010-04-08T09:33:12Z

Hi Stephen,

On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 12:57:21PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Samuel,
>
> After merging the mfd tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64 allmodconfig)
> failed like this:
>
> drivers/mfd/tps6507x.c: In function 'tps6507x_i2c_probe':
> drivers/mfd/tps6507x.c:90: error: implicit declaration of function 'kzalloc'
> drivers/mfd/tps6507x.c:90: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
> drivers/mfd/tps6507x.c:92: error: implicit declaration of function 'kfree'
>
> Caused by commit 353dd1bf937f319eb6fdf35a461bf0bea1361d23 ("mfd: Add
> TPS6507x support").
Fixed in my for-next branch, thanks for the report.

Cheers,
Samuel.

> I applied the following patch for today.
>
> From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
> Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 12:53:32 +1000
> Subject: [PATCH] mfd: TPS6507x: using kzalloc/kfree requires including slab.h
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
> ---
> drivers/mfd/tps6507x.c | 1 +
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mfd/tps6507x.c b/drivers/mfd/tps6507x.c
> index dcddef0..d859dff 100644
> --- a/drivers/mfd/tps6507x.c
> +++ b/drivers/mfd/tps6507x.c
> @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
> #include <linux/module.h>
> #include <linux/moduleparam.h>
> #include <linux/init.h>
> +#include <linux/slab.h>
> #include <linux/i2c.h>
> #include <linux/mfd/core.h>
> #include <linux/mfd/tps6507x.h>
> --
> 1.7.0.4
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au
> http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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