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

From: Alexey Dobriyan
Date: Fri Mar 23 2012 - 06:26:37 EST


On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 13:00 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>> Hi James,
>>
>> After merging the scsi tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
>> ppc64_defconfig) failed like this:
>>
>> drivers/ata/sata_svw.c: In function 'k2_sata_proc_open':
>> drivers/ata/sata_svw.c:327:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'PDE' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
>> drivers/ata/sata_svw.c:327:56: error: invalid type argument of '->' (have 'int')
>> drivers/ata/sata_svw.c:328:1: warning: control reaches end of non-void function [-Wreturn-type]
>>
>> Caused by commit 343ac4b031a7 ("[SCSI] sata_svw: convert to scsi proc_ops").
>>
>> I have used the scsi tree from next-20120322 for today.
>
> Additionally, I am the author and maintainer of that driver and I don't
> remember ever being CCed on that patch ... or did I miss it ?

Your email was not mentioned in changelogs for 6 years nor the driver
has specific MAINTAINERS entry.
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