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

Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-04-21T23:44:38Z

On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 06:12:30PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Mason,
>
> On Fri, 21 Apr 2017 09:58:58 +0200 Mason <slash.tmp@free.fr> wrote:
> >
> > Anyway, the fix is trivial.
> >
> > The "pchans_used" field is an unsigned long array.
> > for_each_clear_bit_from() expects an unsigned long pointer,
> > not an array address.
> >
> > I'll send a patch to the drivers/dma maintainers.
>
> The fix really needs to go into the arm tree (as well?) since that is
> the tree that has the patch that causes the build to break (even if the
> actual bug was preexisting).

Or I drop the offending patch (done) and we get the DMA subsystem fixed
first. Given how long it's been this way, I doubt there's any hurry to
get this change in for the next merge window.

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