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

[David Miller]

From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 12:00:24 +1000

> Hi Dave,
> 
> On Thu, 8 Jun 2017 12:27:59 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> After merging the wireless-drivers-next tree, today's linux-next build
>> (x86_64 allmodconfig) failed like this:
>> 
>> drivers/net/wireless/quantenna/qtnfmac/core.c: In function 'qtnf_core_net_attach':
>> drivers/net/wireless/quantenna/qtnfmac/core.c:319:5: error: 'struct net_device' has no member named 'destructor'
>>   dev->destructor = free_netdev;
>>      ^
>> 
>> Caused by commit
>> 
>>   98f44cb0655c ("qtnfmac: introduce new FullMAC driver for Quantenna chipsets")
> 
> This commit is now in the net-next tree ...
> 
>> interacting with commit
>> 
>>   cf124db566e6 ("net: Fix inconsistent teardown and release of private netdev state.")
>> 
>> from the net tree.
>> 
>> I applied this merge fix patch for today.
> 
> So this merge fix patch is needed when the net and net-next trees are merged.

This is now all resolved, thanks!