On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 02:02:59PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> After merging the block tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64
> allmodconfig) failed like this:
>
> drivers/block/ublk_drv.c:951:19: error: 'no_llseek' undeclared here (not in a function); did you mean 'noop_llseek'?
> 951 | .llseek = no_llseek,
> | ^~~~~~~~~
> | noop_llseek
>
> Caused by commit
>
> 71f28f3136af ("ublk_drv: add io_uring based userspace block driver")
>
> interacting with commit
>
> 8804bffa93a1 ("fs: remove no_llseek")
>
> from the vfs tree.
I suspect that it would be a good idea to slap
#define no_llseek NULL
into include/linux/fs.h for the merge window, then remove it (and all
stray no_llseek initializers) at -rc1. Linus, would you be OK with
that approach?
