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

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Date:	Thu, 4 Feb 2016 13:19:59 +1100
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@...ck.org>
Cc:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Linux-Next <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the aio tree

Hi Benjamin,

On Fri, 29 Jan 2016 13:03:39 +0100 Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 12:30 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
> <linux@....linux.org.uk> wrote:
> >> Background: new aio code is adding __get_user() calls referencing 64
> >> bit quantities (__u64 and __s64).  
> >
> > There's lots more architectures which do not support 64-bit get_user()
> > _or_ __get_user(): avr32, blackfin, metag for example, and m68k which
> > has this interesting thing "/* case 8: disabled because gcc-4.1 has a
> > broken typeof \" in its *get_user() implementation.  
> 
> And if you enable it again, you get lots of "warning: cast to pointer from
> integer of different size", like you mentioned.

Any thoughts?  I am still using the version of tha aio tree from
next-20160111.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell