linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the final tree (staging related)

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Date:	Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:35:03 +1000
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	brudley@...adcom.com, henryp@...adcom.com, rvossen@...adcom.com,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the final tree
 (staging related)

Hi Greg,

On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 12:14:48 -0700 Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 02:21:55PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:34:23 -0700 Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 04:09:38PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:05:48 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > No, I still get these:
> > > > > 
> > > > > In file included from drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/addi_apci_035.c:7:0:
> > > > > drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/addi-data/addi_common.c: In function 'i_ADDI_Attach':
> > > > > drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/addi-data/addi_common.c:2765:7: error: implicit declaration of function 'virt_to_bus'
> > > > > 
> > > > > virt_to_bus is only defined for 32 bit powerpc (not 64 bit) (and maybe
> > > > > not at all on some architectures e.g. sparc).
> > > > > 
> > > > > From Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt:
> > > > > "All drivers should be using these interfaces with no exceptions.  It
> > > > > is planned to completely remove virt_to_bus() and bus_to_virt() as
> > > > > they are entirely deprecated.  Some ports already do not provide these
> > > > > as it is impossible to correctly support them."
> > > > 
> > > > Drivers that use virt_to_bus should Kconfig depend on VIRT_TO_BUS.
> > > 
> > > Ah, I missed that, sorry.  I'll go make that change as well.
> > 
> > Ping?
> 
> Sorry, been swamped with other work, I'll get to this soon...

ping?

> With a very relative value of soon.

Yeah, I understand busy ... but this is a simple patch, rigth?

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

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