Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure

From: "Eric Van Hensbergen" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:00:21 -0500

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 4:28 AM, Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Hi Eric,
>
> Today's linux-next build (powerpc allyesconfig) failed like this:
>
> net/9p/client.c: At top level:
> net/9p/client.c:698: error: __ksymtab_p9_client_version causes a section type conflict
>
> Caused by commit f0cad54013b07371dcefd8fa36ff1d3918b49695 ("9p: rework
> client code to use new protocol support functions") from the v9fs tree
> which exported a static function.  I have applied the following patch.
>

Applied and pushed to my for-next tree - thanks very much.
Any reason why this showed up in powerpc and not an x86 build? (in
other words, what could I have done to catch this sooner)

                   -eric