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

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Message-ID: <20200727101738.GA1923289@kroah.com>
Date:   Mon, 27 Jul 2020 12:17:38 +0200
From:   Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:     Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Scott Branden <scott.branden@...adcom.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the driver-core tree

On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 04:55:39PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> After merging the driver-core tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64
> allmodconfig) failed like this:
> 
> In file included from include/linux/dmi.h:5,
>                  from drivers/firmware/efi/embedded-firmware.c:8:
> drivers/firmware/efi/embedded-firmware.c:25:38: error: static declaration of 'efi_embedded_fw_list' follows non-static declaration
>    25 | EFI_EMBEDDED_FW_VISIBILITY LIST_HEAD(efi_embedded_fw_list);
>       |                                      ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> include/linux/list.h:24:19: note: in definition of macro 'LIST_HEAD'
>    24 |  struct list_head name = LIST_HEAD_INIT(name)
>       |                   ^~~~
> In file included from drivers/firmware/efi/embedded-firmware.c:17:
> drivers/firmware/efi/embedded-firmware.h:16:25: note: previous declaration of 'efi_embedded_fw_list' was here
>    16 | extern struct list_head efi_embedded_fw_list;
>       |                         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> drivers/firmware/efi/embedded-firmware.c:26:33: error: static declaration of 'efi_embedded_fw_checked' follows non-static declaration
>    26 | EFI_EMBEDDED_FW_VISIBILITY bool efi_embedded_fw_checked;
>       |                                 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> In file included from drivers/firmware/efi/embedded-firmware.c:17:
> drivers/firmware/efi/embedded-firmware.h:17:13: note: previous declaration of 'efi_embedded_fw_checked' was here
>    17 | extern bool efi_embedded_fw_checked;
>       |             ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> Caused by commit
> 
>   2d38dbf89a06 ("test_firmware: Test platform fw loading on non-EFI systems")
> 
> CONFIG_TEST_FIRMWARE=m for this build.
> 
> I have used the driver-core tree from next-20200724 for today.

Thanks, I've reverted this from my tree now.

greg k-h