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

Greg KH
2020-07-27T10:17:46Z

On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 04:55:39PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> After merging the driver-core tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64
> allmodconfig) failed like this:
>
> In file included from include/linux/dmi.h:5,
> from drivers/firmware/efi/embedded-firmware.c:8:
> drivers/firmware/efi/embedded-firmware.c:25:38: error: static declaration of 'efi_embedded_fw_list' follows non-static declaration
> 25 | EFI_EMBEDDED_FW_VISIBILITY LIST_HEAD(efi_embedded_fw_list);
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> include/linux/list.h:24:19: note: in definition of macro 'LIST_HEAD'
> 24 | struct list_head name = LIST_HEAD_INIT(name)
> | ^~~~
> In file included from drivers/firmware/efi/embedded-firmware.c:17:
> drivers/firmware/efi/embedded-firmware.h:16:25: note: previous declaration of 'efi_embedded_fw_list' was here
> 16 | extern struct list_head efi_embedded_fw_list;
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> drivers/firmware/efi/embedded-firmware.c:26:33: error: static declaration of 'efi_embedded_fw_checked' follows non-static declaration
> 26 | EFI_EMBEDDED_FW_VISIBILITY bool efi_embedded_fw_checked;
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> In file included from drivers/firmware/efi/embedded-firmware.c:17:
> drivers/firmware/efi/embedded-firmware.h:17:13: note: previous declaration of 'efi_embedded_fw_checked' was here
> 17 | extern bool efi_embedded_fw_checked;
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Caused by commit
>
> 2d38dbf89a06 ("test_firmware: Test platform fw loading on non-EFI systems")
>
> CONFIG_TEST_FIRMWARE=m for this build.
>
> I have used the driver-core tree from next-20200724 for today.

Thanks, I've reverted this from my tree now.

greg k-h