Subject: Re: next-20091029: fs/aio.c build failure

From: Jeff Moyer <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:07:38 -0400

Jens Axboe <[email-masked]> writes:

> On Thu, Oct 29 2009, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 29 2009, Alexander Beregalov wrote:
>> > Hi
>> > 
>> > fs/aio.c:1575: error: implicit declaration of function 'blk_run_address_space'
>> > 
>> > CONFIG_BLOCK is not set.
>> 
>> Not the first time this has happened, I think we should just pull the
>> bdi/mapping unplug functions out of CONFIG_BLOCK protection. They work
>> on the backing_dev, so they aren't inherently tied to just block IO.
>
> I committed this:
>
> http://git.kernel.dk/?p=linux-2.6-block.git;a=commit;h=b9d128f1088ea5245109dfc9bbceb128b6371a77
>
> Same as the posted version, but adds the backing-dev.h include to
> fs/aio.c to make it visible as well. Passes compile/link testing here,
> for both CONFIG_BLOCk and !CONFIG_BLOCK.

Thanks for fixing that, Jens!

Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <[email-masked]>