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Date:   Tue, 3 Sep 2019 09:07:22 +1000
From:   Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:     Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Linux USB Mailing List <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the keys tree

Hi David,

On Mon, 02 Sep 2019 17:01:19 +0100 David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
> 
> > The forward declararion doesn't seem to work (at laste for the
> > !CONFIG_USB_NOTIFICATIONS case.  
> 
> In the !CONFIG_USB_NOTIFICATIONS case, the argument is to a stub inline
> function.  Even though the argument isn't actually used, it can't be an
> undefined type - and, I'm guessing, an undefined size, meaning the compiler
> doesn't know how many registers/how much stack space it would occupy before
> getting to the error argument.
> 
> I have a fix for this in my tree that just makes it an unsigned int in the
> disabled case:
> 
> static inline void post_usb_device_notification(const struct usb_device *udev,
> 						unsigned int subtype, u32 error) {}

But not published, yet?

> > +#include <linux/watch_queue.h>  
> 
> I was trying to avoid that if I could to avoid introducing the possibility of
> circular deps, but that might not be a problem in this case.

Seems to be OK for x86_64 allmodconfig at least.

> 
> > I then discovered that I needed to install libkeyutils-dev :-( but it
> > built OK after that.  
> 
> ?  The kernel shouldn't require that to build.

I was doing an x86_64 allmodconfig build which seems to build (all of?)
the samples.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell

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