With ath79_defconfig enabling CONFIG_MIPS_ELF_APPENDED_DTB gives a compilation error. This patch fixes it. 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 ... Root cause seems to be: Fixes: b83ba0b9df56 ("MIPS: of: Introduce helper function to get DTB") Signed-off-by: Mauri Sandberg <sandberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: trivial@xxxxxxxxxx --- 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