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

From: Michael Ellerman <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2021 09:49:15 +1100

Uwe Kleine-König <[email-masked]> writes:
> Hello,
>
> On 3/2/21 3:09 AM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>> Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]> writes:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> After merging the powerpc-fixes tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
>>> allyesconfig) failed like this:
>>>
>>> drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c:5399:13: error: conflicting types for 'ibmvnic_remove'
>>>   5399 | static void ibmvnic_remove(struct vio_dev *dev)
>>>        |             ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>> drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c:81:12: note: previous declaration of 'ibmvnic_remove' was here
>>>     81 | static int ibmvnic_remove(struct vio_dev *);
>>>        |            ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>
>>> Caused by commit
>>>
>>>    1bdd1e6f9320 ("vio: make remove callback return void")
>> 
>> Gah, is IBMVNIC in any of our defconfigs?! ... no it's not.
>
> Would you accept a patch to add the driver to one of the defconfigs as 
> an excuse for the build breakage I created?

Thanks, but I already sent a patch adding it.

We should really have these drivers enabled in our defconfig, so that's
on us.

cheers