linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the backlight tree

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Message-ID: <1274198064.24454.252.camel@rex>
Date:	Tue, 18 May 2010 08:54:24 -0700
From:	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...ys.net>
To:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@...log.com>,
	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the backlight tree

On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 13:32 +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> On Mon, 10 May 2010 12:43:04 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
> >
> > After merging the backlight tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64
> > allmodconfig) failed like this:
> > 
> > drivers/video/backlight/adp8860_bl.c: In function 'adp8860_led_probe':
> > drivers/video/backlight/adp8860_bl.c:215: error: implicit declaration of function 'kzalloc'
> > drivers/video/backlight/adp8860_bl.c:215: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
> > drivers/video/backlight/adp8860_bl.c:285: error: implicit declaration of function 'kfree'
> > drivers/video/backlight/adp8860_bl.c: In function 'adp8860_probe':
> > drivers/video/backlight/adp8860_bl.c:673: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
> > drivers/video/backlight/adp8860_bl.c:689: error: too few arguments to function 'backlight_device_register'
> > 
> > Caused by commit 6f1a02240dba279a389fd4a4138445bd3f13f67f ("backlight:
> > new driver for the ADP8860 backlight parts").  Use of kzalloc or kfree
> > requires including linux/slab.h (see Rule 1 in
> > Documentation/SubmitChecklist) and the prototype of
> > backlight_device_register changed before v2.6.34-rc2.
> 
> I am still getting these build failures ...

Sorry about that. A bad combination of travel with limited internet
access followed by illness. I've pushed a fix, thanks.

Richard

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