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

From: Giridhar Malavali
Date: Mon Aug 29 2011 - 04:07:35 EST




>>

>On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 12:09 +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>> Hi James,
>>
>> After merging the scsi tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
>> ppc64_defconfig) failed like this:
>>
>> drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_nx.c: In function 'qla82xx_md_alloc':
>> drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_nx.c:4815:2: error: implicit declaration of
>>function 'vmalloc'
>> drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_nx.c:4815:14: warning: assignment makes
>>pointer from integer without a cast
>> drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_nx.c: In function 'qla82xx_md_free':
>> drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_nx.c:4845:3: error: implicit declaration of
>>function 'vfree'
>>
>> Caused by commit b60bb5832c00 ("[SCSI] qla2xxx: Add support for ISP82xx
>> to capture dump (minidump) on failure"). Missing include of
>> linux/vmalloc.h. See Rule 1 in Documentation/SubmitChecklist.
>>
>> I have used the scsi tree from next-20110826 for today.
>
>Thanks for finding the problem. I updated the commit with a simple fix
>and re-pushed.

Thanks James and Stephen for finding and fixing this problem. I will make
sure that such issues won't happen in future.

-- Giri

>
>James
>
>
>


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