On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 05:14:33PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote: > stable-rc 4.9 build failed due to these build error, > > drivers/md/bitmap.c:1702:13: error: conflicting types for 'bitmap_free' > static void bitmap_free(struct bitmap *bitmap) > ^~~~~~~~~~~ > include/linux/bitmap.h:94:13: note: previous declaration of > 'bitmap_free' was here > extern void bitmap_free(const unsigned long *bitmap); > ^~~~~~~~~~~ > scripts/Makefile.build:304: recipe for target 'drivers/md/bitmap.o' failed > > suspecting this patch causing this build failure on stable-rc 4.9 > > bitmap: Add bitmap_alloc(), bitmap_zalloc() and bitmap_free() > commit c42b65e363ce97a828f81b59033c3558f8fa7f70 upstream. > > A lot of code become ugly because of open coding allocations for bitmaps. > > Introduce three helpers to allow users be more clear of intention > and keep their code neat. > > Note, due to multiple circular dependencies we may not provide > the helpers as inliners. For now we keep them exported and, perhaps, > at some point in the future we will sort out header inclusion and > inheritance. > > Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sorry, my fault, am fixing this up for 4.9 and 4.4 and 4.14 right now... Will push out new -rcs when working again. greg k-h
