linux-kernel - Re: mmotm 2008-10-02-16-17 uploaded

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Message-Id: <20081002203759.55f49dad.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Thu, 2 Oct 2008 20:37:59 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mmotm 2008-10-02-16-17 uploaded

On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 20:32:30 -0700 Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 17:17:16 -0700 (PDT) Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, akpm@...ux-foundation.org wrote:
> > 
> > > The mm-of-the-moment snapshot 2008-10-02-16-17 has been uploaded to
> > > 
> > >    http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/
> > > 
> > > It contains the following patches against 2.6.27-rc8:
> > 
> > 10 out of 10 build randconfig failures on i386;
> > 10 out of 10 build randconfig failures on x86_64.
> > 
> > Summary for i386:
> > 
> > build-r9491.out:/home/rdunlap/linsrc/mmotm-2008-1002-1617/fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c:310: error: too 
> > many arguments to function 'dentry_open'
> > 
> > ~~~ (with copy-and-paste line breaks)
> > 
> > build-r9502.out:/home/rdunlap/linsrc/mmotm-2008-1002-1617/arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_32.c:1539: warn
> > ing: format '%08x' expects type 'unsigned int', but argument 2 has type 'u64'
> > build-r9502.out:/home/rdunlap/linsrc/mmotm-2008-1002-1617/arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_32.c:1540: warn
> > ing: format '%08x' expects type 'unsigned int', but argument 2 has type 'u64'
> 
> Weren't these already fixed once?  Could they be in one of the 180-or-so
> -tip branches but you don't have it?

That's a workable theory.

> > 
> > Summary for x86_64:
> > 
> > (lots of these)
> > build-r9493.out:/home/rdunlap/linsrc/mmotm-2008-1002-1617/arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_64.c:1284: warn
> > ing: format '%08x' expects type 'unsigned int', but argument 2 has type 'long unsigned int'
> > build-r9493.out:/home/rdunlap/linsrc/mmotm-2008-1002-1617/arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_64.c:1285: warn
> > ing: format '%08x' expects type 'unsigned int', but argument 2 has type 'long unsigned int'
> 
> Same question for these...
> 
> > build-r9493.out:/home/rdunlap/linsrc/mmotm-2008-1002-1617/fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c:310: error: too 
> > many arguments to function 'dentry_open'
> 
> You (akpm) made a patch (autofs4-add-miscellaneous-device-for-ioctls-fix-fix-3.patch)
> which adds arg4 to this call to dentry_open() but I can't find why/where a 4th arg
> was added and the patch doesn't seem to be needed here/now.  what gives?
> 

Some other tree which fell out of the pile changed the dentry_open()
interface so that fix isn't needed until it is needed again.

Really, it's not worth bothering about at present.  I wonder what's on TV?
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