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

From: James Bottomley <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 00:17:36 -0700

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.

James