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

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Date:	Mon, 29 Aug 2011 01:07:16 -0700
From:	Giridhar Malavali <giridhar.malavali@...gic.com>
To:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
CC:	"linux-next@...r.kernel.org" <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Chad Dupuis <chad.dupuis@...gic.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the scsi tree



>>

>On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 12:09 +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>> Hi James,
>> 
>> After merging the scsi tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
>> ppc64_defconfig) failed like this:
>> 
>> drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_nx.c: In function 'qla82xx_md_alloc':
>> drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_nx.c:4815:2: error: implicit declaration of
>>function 'vmalloc'
>> drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_nx.c:4815:14: warning: assignment makes
>>pointer from integer without a cast
>> drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_nx.c: In function 'qla82xx_md_free':
>> drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_nx.c:4845:3: error: implicit declaration of
>>function 'vfree'
>> 
>> Caused by commit b60bb5832c00 ("[SCSI] qla2xxx: Add support for ISP82xx
>> to capture dump (minidump) on failure").  Missing include of
>> linux/vmalloc.h.  See Rule 1 in Documentation/SubmitChecklist.
>> 
>> I have used the scsi tree from next-20110826 for today.
>
>Thanks for finding the problem.  I updated the commit with a simple fix
>and re-pushed.

Thanks James and Stephen for finding and fixing this problem. I will make
sure that such issues won't happen in future.

-- Giri

>
>James
>
>
>


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