From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-next@vger.kernel.org,
ppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the final tree (akpm tree related)
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:07:40 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1329458860.2892.57.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120217163057.8af53b853b36365b7fff203c@canb.auug.org.au>
On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 16:30 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> After merging the final tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
> allnoconfig) failed like this:
>
> In file included from include/linux/posix_types.h:47:0,
> from include/linux/types.h:17,
> from include/linux/page-flags.h:8,
> from kernel/bounds.c:9:
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/posix_types.h:15:14: error: conflicting types for '__kernel_size_t'
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/posix_types.h:14:22: note: previous declaration of '__kernel_size_t' was here
> In file included from include/linux/page-flags.h:8:0,
> from kernel/bounds.c:9:
> include/linux/types.h:68:1: error: unknown type name '__kernel_ssize_t'
>
> Caused by commit a9dbe86e5995 ("powerpc: use generic posix_types.h").
>
> This think was pointed out a couple of days ago, so maybe Andrew needs a
> newer version of the patch.
Yes, I pointed that out to Peter a while back, maybe it got lost ...
Cheers,
Ben.
> I added this fix patch for today:
>
> From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
> Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:25:48 +1100
> Subject: [PATCH] powerpc: use generic posix_types.h fix
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/posix_types.h | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/posix_types.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/posix_types.h
> index 1fbe027f..f139325 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/posix_types.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/posix_types.h
> @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ typedef unsigned long __kernel_old_dev_t;
> #define __kernel_old_dev_t __kernel_old_dev_t
> #else
> typedef unsigned int __kernel_size_t;
> -typedef int __kernel_size_t;
> +typedef int __kernel_ssize_t;
> typedef long __kernel_ptrdiff_t;
> #define __kernel_size_t __kernel_size_t
>
> --
> 1.7.9
>
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