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

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Jan 05 2012 - 18:52:35 EST


On Thu, 5 Jan 2012 18:29:49 +1100
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
>
> After merging the akpm tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
> ppc64_defconfig) failed like this:
>
> kernel/time/tick-sched.c:874:7: warning: 'struct sysdev_attribute' declared inside parameter list [enabled by default]
>
> ...
>
> Caused by commit 629d589817da ("tick-sched: add specific do_timer_cpu
> value for nohz off mode") interacting with the removal of sysdevs in the
> driver-core tree. This patch will need reworking for that.
>
> I have reverted that commit for today.

Bah. I dropped it.

I must say, this week was a maximally inappropriate time to merge all this
sysdev stuff into linux-next.

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