Subject: Re: linux-next: net tree build failure

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:02:26 -0800

On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:44:57 +1100
Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Hi Dave,
> 
> Today's linux-next build (powerpc ppc64_defconfig) failed like this:
> 
> drivers/net/acenic.c:461: error: 'ace_vlan_rx_register' undeclared here (not in a function)
> 
> Caused by commit d8b83c57a7e497cba9b5cb156e63176323035785 ("acenic:
> convert to net_device_ops").  This commit should also be looked at
> again as ace_vlan_rx_register() is only defined if ACENIC_DO_VLAN is
> set but it is used in net_device_ops unconditionally.   And it needs to
> be forward declared to get rid of the compiler error above, of course.
> 
> I have dropped the net tree for today.

Fixed by later patch (in second wave)