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

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Fri May 13 2016 - 17:02:01 EST


On Tuesday 10 May 2016 11:39:34 Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> On Mon 09 May 18:29 PDT 2016, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > After merging the net-next tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64
> > allmodconfig) failed like this:
> >
> > net/qrtr/smd.c:106:14: error: initialization from incompatible pointer type [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]
> > .callback = qcom_smd_qrtr_callback,
> > ^
> > net/qrtr/smd.c:106:14: note: (near initialization for 'qcom_smd_qrtr_driver.callback')
> >
> > Caused by commit
> >
> > bdabad3e363d ("net: Add Qualcomm IPC router")
> >
> > interacting with commit
> >
> > b853cb9628bf ("soc: qcom: smd: Make callback pass channel reference")
> >
> > from the arm-soc tree.
> >
> > I added the following merge fix patch (and it turned out I needed the
> > new stubs).
> >
>
> Sorry for not spotting this issue earlier, I missed Andy's second pull
> request towards arm-soc and thought the SMD changes missed this cycle.
>
>
> Your patch looks good, but I'm not sure how we should approach the merge
> window; Andy can't pick the patch because he doesn't have the qrtr code
> and David doesn't have the SMD patches coming through Andy.
>
> FWIW, Reviewed-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> I assume we could have the QRTR go through Andy and arm-soc, with
> David's approval and this fix squashed in. But we're running rather late
> in this cycle, perhaps we should just back the QRTR patches out and I
> can respin and resend them after the merge window (for v4.8 instead)?

I'd suggest you do a merge of next-next with the qcom/soc-2 branch that
we have in arm-soc and resolve the conflict in the merge, then send
a pull request with the merge to davem.

Alternatively, in case Linus merges net-next before we get that fix
in, I could send Stephen's fix to Linus along with the pull requests.

Arnd