Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the final tree (akpm tree related)

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:07:40 +1100

On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 16:30 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> After merging the final tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
> allnoconfig) failed like this:
> 
> In file included from include/linux/posix_types.h:47:0,
>                  from include/linux/types.h:17,
>                  from include/linux/page-flags.h:8,
>                  from kernel/bounds.c:9:
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/posix_types.h:15:14: error: conflicting types for '__kernel_size_t'
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/posix_types.h:14:22: note: previous declaration of '__kernel_size_t' was here
> In file included from include/linux/page-flags.h:8:0,
>                  from kernel/bounds.c:9:
> include/linux/types.h:68:1: error: unknown type name '__kernel_ssize_t'
> 
> Caused by commit a9dbe86e5995 ("powerpc: use generic posix_types.h").
> 
> This think was pointed out a couple of days ago, so maybe Andrew needs a
> newer version of the patch.

Yes, I pointed that out to Peter a while back, maybe it got lost ...

Cheers,
Ben.

> I added this fix patch for today:
> 
> From: Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:25:48 +1100
> Subject: [PATCH] powerpc: use generic posix_types.h fix
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/posix_types.h |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/posix_types.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/posix_types.h
> index 1fbe027f..f139325 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/posix_types.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/posix_types.h
> @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ typedef unsigned long	__kernel_old_dev_t;
>  #define __kernel_old_dev_t __kernel_old_dev_t
>  #else
>  typedef unsigned int	__kernel_size_t;
> -typedef int		__kernel_size_t;
> +typedef int		__kernel_ssize_t;
>  typedef long		__kernel_ptrdiff_t;
>  #define __kernel_size_t __kernel_size_t
>  
> -- 
> 1.7.9
>