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Date:	Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:10:26 +0100
From:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the driver-core tree

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 08:21, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 05:37:54PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>> After merging the driver-core tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64
>> allmodconfig) failed like this:
>>
>> drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c:305:36: error: expected ')' before '(' token
>> drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c:327:42: error: expected ')' before '(' token
>> drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c:349:48: error: expected ')' before '(' token
>>
>> etc ...
>>
>> [Along with many warnings like:
>>
>> drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c:284:8: warning: 'struct device_attribute' declared inside parameter list [enabled by default]
>> ]
>>
>> Presumably caused by commit drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c ("xen-balloon:
>> convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem").
>
> Ick, Kay, can you make a fix-up patch?
>
> And here I thought I built xen in my test kernel, crap, sorry about
> that.

It seems it's a compiler version issue, or similar. I'm unable to
reproduce it here, allmodconfig and the Xen part gets through without
any problems.

I guess we both have very recent systems again. :)

I expect adding a device.h include will fix it. I'll send you a patch.

Thanks,
Kay
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