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Date:	Fri, 17 Sep 2010 12:42:38 +1000
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: linux-next: build failure after merge of the rcu tree

Hi Paul,

After merging the rcu tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
ppc64_defconfig) failed like this:

net/core/dev.c: In function 'netdev_run_todo':
net/core/dev.c:5294: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
net/core/dev.c:5294: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of '_________p1'
net/core/dev.c:5294: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
net/core/dev.c:5294: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'type name'
net/core/dev.c:5294: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
net/core/dev.c:5294: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'type name'
net/core/dev.c:5294: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast
net/core/dev.c:5294: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
net/core/dev.c:5294: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'type name'

Caused by commit ca5ecddfa8fcbd948c95530e7e817cee9fb43a3d ("rcu: define
__rcu address space modifier for sparse") interacting with commit
95ae6b228f814fc0528d0506ee9f18ac333d6851 ("ipv4: ip_ptr cleanups") from
the net tree.

rcu_dereference_raw() now needs to know the type of the object its
argument points to.  I added the following merge fix (which could be
applied to the net tree anyway).

From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 12:36:36 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] net: include inetdevice.h for rcu_dereference_raw api change

rcu_dereference_raw() now needs to know the type of its argument.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
---
 net/core/dev.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index c6d837a..cadd28c 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -129,6 +129,7 @@
 #include <linux/random.h>
 #include <trace/events/napi.h>
 #include <linux/pci.h>
+#include <linux/inetdevice.h>
 
 #include "net-sysfs.h"
 
-- 
1.7.1

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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