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

From: Greg KH
Date: Sun May 02 2010 - 00:13:17 EST


On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 03:52:05PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> After merging the staging-next tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64
> allmodconfig) failed like this:
>
> drivers/md/md.c: In function 'level_store':
> drivers/md/md.c:3029: error: too few arguments to function 'sysfs_get_dirent'
>
> Caused by commit 262f8e4937e7b4a587923ca3c039a184668f49ec ("sysfs:
> Implement sysfs tagged directory support") from the driver-core tree
> interacting with commit fecc531e3cc0de60514d326c7d82f1075ed55888 ("md:
> manage redundancy group in sysfs when changing level") from the md.
>
> I have applied this fixup patch for today and can carry it as necessary.

Thanks, that would be great.

> [This could have been avoided, of course, by creating a new API (maybe
> sysfs_get_dirent_tagged) and implementing the old API in terms of that].

Hm Eric, any thoughts?

thanks,

greg k-h
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