From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755166Ab1BHQun (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Feb 2011 11:50:43 -0500 Received: from li9-11.members.linode.com ([67.18.176.11]:37630 "EHLO test.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755025Ab1BHQum (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Feb 2011 11:50:42 -0500 Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 11:50:28 -0500 From: "Ted Ts'o" To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg , Stephen Rothwell , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the slab tree Message-ID: <20110208165028.GA9533@thunk.org> Mail-Followup-To: Ted Ts'o , Christoph Lameter , Pekka Enberg , Stephen Rothwell , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20110131144246.dfa2abe3.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <1296502339.30654.13.camel@jaguar> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: tytso@thunk.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on test.thunk.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 09:55:48AM -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote: > Argh. I accidentally sent an older version of the patch. This one is the > tested one. > > Subject: ext4: Remove use of kmem_cache_name > > Remove the use of kmem_cache_name from ext4. In order to do that we need to > strdup the name of the cache passed to kmem_cache_create. There is a patch for this that Eric Sandeen has done which I've pushed to Linus already. Part of the problem is that some of the slab allocators call strdup, and some don't. So the only solution is to pass in a const, statically allocated name..... - Ted