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

[Benjamin LaHaise]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 01:25:31AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 08:23:16PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Via the aio tree (git://git.kvack.org/~bcrl/aio-next.git#master) added
> > in July 2013 at Ben's request.  The code was added to the aio tree in
> > Jan 12 (my time), but has never been in a published linux-next tree due
> > to the above build problem (I back out to the previous days version of
> > the aio tree).
> 
> Well, it's code Ben posted a few days ago, which to say it mildly is
> rather controversial.  It's cetainly not 4.5 material.

It still needs the exposure.

As for the build failure, it's a bug in the arch __get_user() implementation 
that needs to be fixed.  __get_user() should really be able to handle 64 bit 
types.

		-ben

> > -- 
> > Cheers,
> > Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---end quoted text---

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