Subject: Re: next-20170110 build: 1 failures 4 warnings (next-20170110)

From: Sekhar Nori <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 15:39:22 +0530

On Wednesday 11 January 2017 01:51 AM, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Mark,
> 
> On Tue, 10 Jan 2017 18:16:07 +0000 Mark Brown <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 07:21:32AM +0000, Build bot for Mark Brown wrote:
>>
>> Today's -next fails to build an arm allmodconfig due to:
>>
>>> 	arm-allmodconfig
>>> ../drivers/net/ethernet/ti/netcp_core.c:1951:28: error: initialization from incompatible pointer type [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]  
>>
>> caused by 6a8162e99ef344 (net: netcp: store network statistics in 64
>> bits).  It's assigning the function
>>
>>   static struct rtnl_link_stats64 *
>>   netcp_get_stats(struct net_device *ndev, struct rtnl_link_stats64 *stats)
>>
>> to ndo_get_stats64 which expects a function returning void.
> 
> Yes, but only because commit bc1f44709cf2 ("net: make ndo_get_stats64 a
> void function") entered the net-next tree on the same day ... so it
> needs a followup fixup patch for this new usage.

Keerthy sent a patch fixing this yesterday. Looks like he will have to
spin another version though.

https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/713224/

Thanks,
Sekhar