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

From: David Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 14:22:49 -0700 (PDT)

From: "Chickles, Derek" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 15:59:54 +0000

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Michael Ellerman [mailto:[email-masked]]
>> Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 3:51 AM
>> To: Thomas Gleixner; Ingo Molnar; H. Peter Anvin; Peter Zijlstra; David
>> S.Miller
>> Cc: [email-masked]; [email-masked];
>> [email-masked]; Chickles, Derek; Burla, Satananda; Manlunas, Felix;
>> Richter, Robert; Makarov, Aleksey; Vatsavayi, Raghu
>> Subject: linux-next: build failure after merge of the tip tree
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> After merging the tip tree, today's linux-next build (x86_allmodconfig)
>> failed like this:
 ...
>> And so on.
>> 
>> Caused by the interaction of commit d6472302f242 "x86/mm: Decouple
>> <linux/vmalloc.h> from <asm/io.h>" from the tip tree with commit
>> f21fb3ed364b
>> "Add support of Cavium Liquidio ethernet adapters" from the net-next tree.
>> 
>> I applied the following fix for today:
 ...
> Thanks. Much appreciated.

This doesn't work, neither of these emails are a formal proper submission
of a fix for this build failure.

One of you has to do the work to formally submit the patch to netdev
with a full signoff and commit log message so that it gets fixed in my
tree.

Thanks.