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

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Message-ID: <27b562ca-d79b-4f80-be71-ebf5e26ed9ab@sirena.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2026 18:53:57 +0000
From: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To: Tamir Duberstein <tamird@...il.com>
Cc: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@...nel.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
	Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the block tree

On Mon, Jan 19, 2026 at 01:18:09PM -0500, Tamir Duberstein wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2026 at 1:13 PM Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 19, 2026 at 06:02:20PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:

> > > Caused by commit

> > >   4cef2fcda3ada (rnull: replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings)

> > > I have used the version from 20260116 instead.

> > Actually that's been there for a while so I'll just revert the commit
> > instead.

> Ah yes, this is the combination of
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251222-cstr-configfs-v1-1-cc1665c51c43@gmail.com/
> and https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251222-cstr-block-v1-1-fdab28bb7367@gmail.com/
> going through different trees. With both changes, the import becomes
> unused. Can the import be removed as part of the merge commit?

I could do that as a merge fixup instead of the revert, I'll have a look
at some point but not for today.  Someone will need to work out how this
works when things go to Linus...

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