On Wed, 2011-09-28 at 19:22 +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > After merging the akpm tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc > ppc64_defconfig) failed like this: > > In file included from arch/powerpc/boot/stdio.c:12:0: > arch/powerpc/boot/stdio.h:10:17: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before numeric constant [] > And went down hill from there (it produced hundreds of errors). Well, I did say it was completely untested... > Caused by commit a52af697aaeb ("treewide: use __printf not __attribute__ > ((format(printf,...)))"). Maybe because some of these files are part of > the boot wrappers and are built (effectively) independently of the kernel > itself. Notice that arch/powerpc/boot/stdio.h does not include any > kernel headers ... The conversion was too comprehensive. Probably most of the arch/... changes should be removed. The arch/frv and arch/s390 changes look safe as they are after #includes of kernel.h. arch/alpha/boot/misc.c | 3 +- arch/alpha/include/asm/console.h | 3 +- arch/frv/include/asm/system.h | 2 +- arch/ia64/include/asm/mca.h | 3 +- arch/m68k/include/asm/natfeat.h | 3 +- arch/mn10300/include/asm/gdb-stub.h | 5 +- arch/powerpc/boot/ps3.c | 3 +- arch/powerpc/boot/stdio.h | 5 +- arch/powerpc/include/asm/udbg.h | 3 +- arch/s390/include/asm/debug.h | 11 +-- arch/um/include/shared/user.h | 8 +- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html