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

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Mon May 11 2020 - 11:06:47 EST


On 5/10/20 10:27 PM, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> After merging the block tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64
> allmodconfig) failed like this:
>
> drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c: In function 'aoeblk_gdalloc':
> drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c:410:21: error: 'struct backing_dev_info' has no member named 'name'
> 410 | q->backing_dev_info->name = "aoe";
> | ^~
>
> Caused by commit
>
> 1cd925d58385 ("bdi: remove the name field in struct backing_dev_info")

Gah, thanks Stephen. This series is looking less and less impressive,
fallout for both 5.7 and 5.8, in terms of build testing (none).

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Jens Axboe