linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: origin tree build failure

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Message-Id: <1231719015.22571.4.camel@pasglop>
Date:	Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:10:15 +1100
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Mike Travis <travis@....com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org
Subject: Re: linux-next: origin tree build failure

On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 10:48 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Linus,
> 
> Today's linux-next build (powerpc ppc64_defconfig) failed like this:
> 
> arch/powerpc/platforms/pasemi/cpufreq.c: In function 'pas_cpufreq_cpu_init':
> arch/powerpc/platforms/pasemi/cpufreq.c:216: error: incompatible types in assignment
> arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/cpufreq_64.c: In function 'g5_cpufreq_cpu_init':
> arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/cpufreq_64.c:365: error: incompatible types in assignment
> arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/cbe_cpufreq.c: In function 'cbe_cpufreq_cpu_init':
> arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/cbe_cpufreq.c:121: error: incompatible types in assignment
> 
> Caused by commit 835481d9bcd65720b473db6b38746a74a3964218 ("cpumask:
> convert struct cpufreq_policy to cpumask_var_t") which missed updating
> all the powerpc (at least) cpufreq drivers.

Yeah, it only updates x86 it seems ... 

> Reverting that one commit required fixups, so I reverted merge commit
> 4e9b1c184cadbece3694603de5f880b6e35bd7a7 ("Merge branch 'cpus4096-for-linus'
> of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip")
> instead.
> 
> I am hoping that this will be fixed soon and that revert doesn't
> propagate more pain through today's linux-next.

I've just made a patch, testing it now, will send it in a few minutes

Cheers,
Ben.

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