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

From: Al Viro <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2022 05:10:18 +0100

On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 02:02:59PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> After merging the block tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64
> allmodconfig) failed like this:
> 
> drivers/block/ublk_drv.c:951:19: error: 'no_llseek' undeclared here (not in a function); did you mean 'noop_llseek'?
>   951 |         .llseek = no_llseek,
>       |                   ^~~~~~~~~
>       |                   noop_llseek
> 
> Caused by commit
> 
>   71f28f3136af ("ublk_drv: add io_uring based userspace block driver")
> 
> interacting with commit
> 
>   8804bffa93a1 ("fs: remove no_llseek")
> 
> from the vfs tree.

I suspect that it would be a good idea to slap
#define no_llseek NULL
into include/linux/fs.h for the merge window, then remove it (and all
stray no_llseek initializers) at -rc1.  Linus, would you be OK with
that approach?