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

David Miller
2015-06-12T21:22:52Z

From: "Chickles, Derek" <Derek.Chickles@caviumnetworks.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 15:59:54 +0000

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Michael Ellerman [mailto:mpe@ellerman.id.au]
>> Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 3:51 AM
>> To: Thomas Gleixner; Ingo Molnar; H. Peter Anvin; Peter Zijlstra; David
>> S.Miller
>> Cc: linux-next@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org;
>> sfr@canb.auug.org.au; Chickles, Derek; Burla, Satananda; Manlunas, Felix;
>> Richter, Robert; Makarov, Aleksey; Vatsavayi, Raghu
>> Subject: linux-next: build failure after merge of the tip tree
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> After merging the tip tree, today's linux-next build (x86_allmodconfig)
>> failed like this:
...
>> And so on.
>>
>> Caused by the interaction of commit d6472302f242 "x86/mm: Decouple
>> <linux/vmalloc.h> from <asm/io.h>" from the tip tree with commit
>> f21fb3ed364b
>> "Add support of Cavium Liquidio ethernet adapters" from the net-next tree.
>>
>> I applied the following fix for today:
...
> Thanks. Much appreciated.

This doesn't work, neither of these emails are a formal proper submission
of a fix for this build failure.

One of you has to do the work to formally submit the patch to netdev
with a full signoff and commit log message so that it gets fixed in my
tree.

Thanks.