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

From: Dmitry Torokhov <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 00:36:35 -0800

On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 06:13:46PM -0800, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 12:31:15 pm Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Hi Rusty,
> > 
> > After merging the rr tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
> > ppc64_defconfig) failed like this:
> > 
> > drivers/net/myri10ge/myri10ge.c: In function 'myri10ge_select_firmware':
> > drivers/net/myri10ge/myri10ge.c:3341: error: request for member 'perm' in something not a structure or union
> > drivers/net/myri10ge/myri10ge.c:3341: error: request for member 'perm' in something not a structure or union
> > drivers/net/myri10ge/myri10ge.c:3341: error: request for member 'perm' in something not a structure or union
> > drivers/net/myri10ge/myri10ge.c:3349: error: request for member 'perm' in something not a structure or union
> > drivers/net/myri10ge/myri10ge.c:3349: error: request for member 'perm' in something not a structure or union
> > drivers/net/myri10ge/myri10ge.c:3349: error: request for member 'perm' in something not a structure or union
> > 
> > Caused by commit b3e402b450f954d0a8ec04e05433654d4a9df2a6 ("module: deal
> > with alignment issues in built-in module parameters") so I have used the
> > rr tree from next-20110208 for today.
> 
> Thanks!  Fix is obvious, I will write it now...
> 

Sorry about this. None of the drivers using kparam_block_sysfs_write()
happened to be enabled in my .config.

Thanks,
Dmitry