linux-kernel - Re: Build failure after merge of the char-misc tree

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Date:	Thu, 3 Oct 2013 17:11:34 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc:	Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@...el.com>,
	Dasaratharaman Chandramouli 
	<dasaratharaman.chandramouli@...el.com>,
	Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@...el.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Build failure after merge of the char-misc tree

On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 12:54:19AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> After merging the char-misc tree into -next an x86 allmodconfig build fails
> with:
> 
> drivers/misc/mic/host/mic_main.c: In function ‘mic_probe’:
> drivers/misc/mic/host/mic_main.c:320:3: error: too many arguments to function ‘sysfs_get_dirent’
>    NULL, "state");
>    ^
> In file included from include/linux/kobject.h:21:0,
>                  from include/linux/module.h:16,
>                  from drivers/misc/mic/host/mic_main.c:26:
> include/linux/sysfs.h:465:1: note: declared here
>  sysfs_get_dirent(struct sysfs_dirent *parent_sd, const unsigned char
> *name)
>  ^
> make[4]: *** [drivers/misc/mic/host/mic_main.o] Error 1
> 
> caused by an interaction between the addition of the Intel MIC host
> driver and commit 388975cccaaf1 (sysfs: clean up sysfs_get_dirent())
> from the driver-current tree.
> 
> I've applied the patch below and can carry it for the time being.
> 
> From abbabb4580f45accf74f95aed6fe35b26ae8d009 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Mark Brown <broonie@...aro.org>
> Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 00:53:01 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] misc: mic: Update for sysfs_get_dirent() cleanups
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@...aro.org>
> ---
>  drivers/misc/mic/host/mic_main.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

That patch looks great, thanks.

greg k-h
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