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Date:	Tue, 22 Feb 2011 09:45:01 -0600
From:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
To:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
CC:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	George <george0505@...ltek.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the final tree (wireless
 tree related)

On 02/22/2011 01:15 AM, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> After merging the final tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
> allyesconfig) failed like this:
> 
> drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/sw.c: In function 'rtl92cu_init_sw_vars':
> drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/sw.c:60: error: implicit declaration of function 'vmalloc'
> drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/sw.c:60: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
> drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/sw.c: In function 'rtl92cu_deinit_sw_vars':
> drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/sw.c:74: error: implicit declaration of function 'vfree'
> 
> Caused by commit 442888c706e90634c4cc3441751b43115a7d8506 ("rtlwifi:
> rtl8192cu: Add routines dm, fw, led and sw").  Missing an include of
> linux/vmalloc.h.  See Rule 1 in Documentation/SubmitChecklist.
> 
> I added the following patch:
> 
> From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:29:04 +1100
> Subject: [PATCH] rtlwifi: include vmalloc.h for needed routines
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/sw.c |    2 ++
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/sw.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/sw.c
> index 4e937e0..c69861e 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/sw.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/sw.c
> @@ -27,6 +27,8 @@
>   *
>   *****************************************************************************/
>  
> +#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
> +
>  #include "../wifi.h"
>  #include "../core.h"
>  #include "../usb.h"

I had gotten private mail yesterday about the missing vmalloc.h include.

It will take me a while to set up an allyes configuration to find the other
problems.

Larry
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