Hi Al, After merging the vfs tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64 allmodconfig) failed like this: fs/orangefs/symlink.c:26:2: error: unknown field 'follow_link' specified in initializer .follow_link = pvfs2_follow_link, ^ fs/orangefs/symlink.c:26:17: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type [-Wincompatible-pointer-types] .follow_link = pvfs2_follow_link, ^ fs/orangefs/symlink.c:26:17: note: (near initialization for 'pvfs2_symlink_inode_operations.put_link') Caused by commit 6b2553918d8b ("replace ->follow_link() with new method that could stay in RCU mode") [I wish there was some way to stage these API changes :-(] I applied the following merge fix patch (which may need more work): From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 11:12:36 +1100 Subject: [PATCH] orangfs: update for follow_link to get_link change Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/orangefs/symlink.c | 12 +++++++++--- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/orangefs/symlink.c b/fs/orangefs/symlink.c index 2adfceff7730..dbf24a98a3c9 100644 --- a/fs/orangefs/symlink.c +++ b/fs/orangefs/symlink.c @@ -8,9 +8,15 @@ #include "pvfs2-kernel.h" #include "pvfs2-bufmap.h" -static const char *pvfs2_follow_link(struct dentry *dentry, void **cookie) +static const char *pvfs2_get_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode, + void **cookie) { - char *target = PVFS2_I(dentry->d_inode)->link_target; + char *target; + + if (!dentry) + return ERR_PTR(-ECHILD); + + target = PVFS2_I(inode)->link_target; gossip_debug(GOSSIP_INODE_DEBUG, "%s: called on %s (target is %p)\n", @@ -23,7 +29,7 @@ static const char *pvfs2_follow_link(struct dentry *dentry, void **cookie) struct inode_operations pvfs2_symlink_inode_operations = { .readlink = generic_readlink, - .follow_link = pvfs2_follow_link, + .get_link = pvfs2_get_link, .setattr = pvfs2_setattr, .getattr = pvfs2_getattr, .listxattr = pvfs2_listxattr, -- 2.6.2 -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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