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

From: Stephen Rothwell
Date: Tue Oct 29 2019 - 02:24:23 EST


Hi Christoph,

On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 06:56:05 +0100 Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 04:18:06PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 10:11:51AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > After merging the xfs tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
> > > ppc64_defconfig) failed like this:
> >
> > <groan> Yeah, that's the same thing reported by the kbuild robot an hour
> > ago. FWIW I pushed a fixed branch but I guess it's too late for today,
> > oh well....
> >
> > ...the root cause of course was the stray '}' in one of the commits,
> > that I didn't catch because compat ioctls are hard. :(
>
> Weird. My usual builds have compat ioclts enabled, and I never got
> any report like this.

It only fails for !(defined(CONFIG_IA64) || defined(CONFIG_X86_64))
I reported it failing in my powerpc build.

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell

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