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

From: Daniel Wagner <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 08:53:44 +0100

Hi,

On 03/16/2016 12:58 AM, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> After merging the kbuild tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64
> allmodconfig) failed like this:
> 
> drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/mdfld_dsi_output.c:407:39: error: initialization from incompatible pointer type [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]
>   .dpms = /*drm_helper_connector_dpms*/mdfld_dsi_connector_dpms,
>                                        ^
> 
> Caused by commit
> 
>   ea8daa7b9784 ("kbuild: Add option to turn incompatible pointer check into error")

A fix should be on the way via drm-misc:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/2/25/397

Though I don't know what the exact status is (and I haven't really
understood the flow of the patches as far)

cheers,
daniel