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

From: Randy Dunlap <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 07:32:17 -0700

On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:48:11 +1000 Stephen Rothwell wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> After merging the final tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
> allnoconfig) failed like this:
> 
> kernel/cred.c: In function 'prepare_kernel_cred':
> kernel/cred.c:657:2: error: 'tgcred' undeclared (first use in this function)
> 
> Caused by commit 012146d0728f ("CRED: Fix prepare_kernel_cred() to
> provide a new thread_group_cred struct").  CONFIG_KEYS is not set in this
> build ...
> 
> Please, please build test with and without CONFIG settings that affect
> your changes.
> 
> I discovered this after releaseing linux-next for today.

This one also causes UML (defconfig) builds to fail today.

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~Randy
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