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

From: James Bottomley <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 16:56:34 -0800

On Fri, 2016-12-23 at 11:45 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi James,
> 
> After merging the scsi tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64
> allmodconfig) failed like this:
> 
> drivers/scsi/qedi/qedi_main.c: In function 'qedi_init':
> drivers/scsi/qedi/qedi_main.c:2073:2: error: implicit declaration of
> function 'register_hotcpu_notifier' [-Werror=implicit-function
> -declaration]
>   register_hotcpu_notifier(&qedi_cpu_notifier);
>   ^
> drivers/scsi/qedi/qedi_main.c: In function 'qedi_cleanup':
> drivers/scsi/qedi/qedi_main.c:2113:2: error: implicit declaration of
> function 'unregister_hotcpu_notifier' [-Werror=implicit-function
> -declaration]
>   unregister_hotcpu_notifier(&qedi_cpu_notifier);
>   ^
> 
> Caused by commit
> 
>   ace7f46ba5fd ("scsi: qedi: Add QLogic FastLinQ offload iSCSI driver
> framework.")
> 
> Interacting with commit
> 
>   8e38db753d95 ("cpu/hotplug: Remove obsolete cpu hotplug
> register/unregister functions")
> 
> from the tip tree.

Well, that's a bit of a problem given that the SCSI tree has a pending
pull request including this driver.

Thomas, can you do another fixup in your tip tree like you did for the
two BNX2* drivers?

Thanks,

James