Re: Driver scsi/lpfc breaks build since 3.4.1

[James Smart]

fyi - the patch to lpfc to resolve this were submitted a while ago:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=133661285100503&w=2

-- james s


On 6/17/2012 9:24 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 02:09:08AM +0200, Tobias Klausmann wrote:
> > Hello there,
> > since 3.4.1 the driver scsi/lpfc breaks my build for some unused variables:
> > drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_scsi.c: In function âlpfc_bg_setup_bplâ:
> > drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_scsi.c:1900:11: error: unused variable ârcâ
> > [-Werror=unused-variable]
> > drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_scsi.c: In function âlpfc_bg_setup_bpl_protâ:
> > drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_scsi.c:2037:11: error: unused variable ârcâ
> > [-Werror=unused-variable]
> > drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_scsi.c: In function âlpfc_bg_setup_sglâ:
> > drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_scsi.c:2256:11: error: unused variable ârcâ
> > [-Werror=unused-variable]
> > drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_scsi.c: In function âlpfc_bg_setup_sgl_protâ:
> > drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_scsi.c:2386:11: error: unused variable ârcâ
> > [-Werror=unused-variable]
> > cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
> >
> >  From the drivers makefile:
> > ccflags-y += -Werror <- this causes the bad behavior.
> As has been stated before, this ccflags setting is what needs to be
> fixed, not trying to fix up the warnings here (although that is a good
> goal overall.)
>
> Also, this isn't how to submit a patch to the stable kernel tree, please
> read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for how to properly do that.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h


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