On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 03:39:21PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On 7/28/20 2:55 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 05:33:58 -0700 Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> On 7/27/20 6:19 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > >>> The mm-of-the-moment snapshot 2020-07-27-18-18 has been uploaded to > >>> > >>> http://www.ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/ > > > >> on x86_64: > >> > >> ../mm/page_alloc.c:8355:48: warning: ‘struct compact_control’ declared inside parameter list will not be visible outside of this definition or declaration > >> static int __alloc_contig_migrate_range(struct compact_control *cc, > >> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > > As is usually the case with your reports, I can't figure out how to > > reproduce it. I copy then .config, run `make oldconfig' (need to hit > > enter a zillion times because the .config is whacky) then the build > > succeeds. What's the secret? > > I was not aware that there was a problem. cp .config and make oldconfig > should be sufficient -- and I don't understand why you would need to hit > enter many times. > > I repeated this on my system without having to answer any oldconfig prompts > and still got build errors. > > There is no secret that I know of, but it would be good to get to the > bottom of this problem. > > -- > ~Randy > I usually do 'olddefconfig', which is the same as oldconfig but it selects the default value of the symbols that are new. This usually happens for me if I am flipping around in different trees like mainline and next, where there might be new or different symbols between them. Cheers, Nathan
