Developing against mips/mips-next I get a compilation error.
With the attached patch compilation succeeds.
Build log:
...
CC kernel/locking/percpu-rwsem.o
../arch/mips/kernel/setup.c:46:39: error: conflicting types for
'__appended_dtb'
const char __section(".appended_dtb") __appended_dtb[0x100000];
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from ../arch/mips/kernel/setup.c:34:
../arch/mips/include/asm/bootinfo.h:118:13: note: previous declaration
of '__appended_dtb' was here
extern char __appended_dtb[];
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
CC fs/attr.o
make[4]: *** [../scripts/Makefile.build:271: arch/mips/kernel/setup.o]
Error 1
make[3]: *** [../scripts/Makefile.build:514: arch/mips/kernel] Error 2
make[2]: *** [/home/ubuntu/git/linux/Makefile:1849: arch/mips] Error 2
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
...
Root cause seems to be:
commit b83ba0b9df56 ("MIPS: of: Introduce helper function to get DTB")
Signed-off-by: Mauri Sandberg <sandberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/mips/kernel/setup.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c b/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c
index 279be0153f8b..23a140327a0b 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
#include <asm/prom.h>
#ifdef CONFIG_MIPS_ELF_APPENDED_DTB
-const char __section(".appended_dtb") __appended_dtb[0x100000];
+char __section(".appended_dtb") __appended_dtb[0x100000];
#endif /* CONFIG_MIPS_ELF_APPENDED_DTB */
struct cpuinfo_mips cpu_data[NR_CPUS] __read_mostly;
--
2.25.1
