Hi all,

I have created today's linux-next tree at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfr/linux-next.git
(tar balls at
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/sfr/linux-next/).

You can see which trees have been included by looking in the Next/Trees
file in the source.  There are also quilt-import.log and merge.log files
in the Next directory.  Between each merge, the tree was built with
a ppc64_defconfig for powerpc and an allmodconfig for x86_64.

I have started this tree by reverting the following:
driver-core/driver-core-remove-no-longer-used-struct-class_device.patch
	should be merged late
driver-core/ib-convert-struct-class_device-to-struct-device.patch
	conflicts with the infiniband tree
driver-core/pm-make-wakeup-flags-available-whenever-config_pm-is-set.patch
	breaks non CONFIG_PM builds of drivers/serial/serial_core.c

There were a few merge conflicts (fairly trivial).

I have added POWERPC-really-export-empty_zero_page.patch and reverted
async-tx commit 9974693221954ef1019f87d32ae26a0757d2ee85 ("dmaengine: ack
to flags: make use of the unused bits in the 'ack' field") as these are
still needed to make powerpc allmodconfig build (in particular ext4 and
drivers/dma/fsldma.c).  These have been reported previously.

We are up to 48 trees, more are welcome (even if they are currently
empty).  The influx of new trees has slowed completely.  Thanks to those
who have contributed, and to those who haven't, please do.

In particular, I have very few of the architecture trees ....

Status of my local build tests is at
http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/linux-next.  If maintainers want to give
advice about cross compilers/configs that work, we are always open to add
more builds.

Thanks to Jan Dittmer for adding the linux-next tree to his build tests
at http://l4x.org/k/.

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb.auug.org.au
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gcc doesn't like nested /* comments:

next-20080320/drivers/media/video/bt8xx/bttv-cards.c:3030:38: warning: "/*" within comment
next-20080320/drivers/media/video/bt8xx/bttv-cards.c:3032:20: warning: "/*" within comment

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~Randy
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On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:21:21 -0700





Cheers,
Mauro
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These should be fixed tomorrow, I have new ones in my inbox to solve
these issues (I hope...)

thanks,

greg k-h
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Great, I look forward to it.

--=20
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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Hi Greg,



This still has the same conflicts, but they are papered over by my use of
git-rerere (which remembers my previous merge fixup and applies it for

This one seems to be fixed.

--=20
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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I'll be sending this to Linus after -rc1 comes out, so it's fine that it


Glad to hear it.

greg k-h
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Hi Stephen,

Kernel bug is hit while booting up the next-20080320 kernel with MPT Fusion driver built in.

[   61.614030] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000528
[   61.617012] IP: [<f881ccc9>] :mptspi:mptspi_dv_renegotiate_work+0xc/0xab
[   61.619012] *pde = 00000000 
[   61.621015] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP 
[   61.622004] last sysfs file: /sys/block/ram15/dev
[   61.622004] Modules linked in: mptspi(+) mptscsih mptbase scsi_transport_spi sd_mod scsi_mod ext3 jbd ehci_hcd ohci_hcd uhci_hcd
[   61.622004] 
[   61.622004] Pid: 18, comm: events/3 Not tainted (2.6.25-rc6-next-20080320-autotest #1)
[   61.622004] EIP: 0060:[<f881ccc9>] EFLAGS: 00010282 CPU: 3
[   61.622004] EIP is at mptspi_dv_renegotiate_work+0xc/0xab [mptspi]
[   61.622004] EAX: f7ae5c30 EBX: f7ae5c34 ECX: f78c510c EDX: 00000001
[   61.622004] ESI: f7867da0 EDI: 00000528 EBP: f78a3f78 ESP: f78a3f58
[   61.622004]  DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
[   61.622004] Process events/3 (pid: 18, ti=f78a3000 task=f78c4a20 task.ti=f78a3000)
[   61.622004] Stack: 00000000 00000002 00000000 c0430b71 f78a3f90 f7ae5c34 f7867da0 f7ae5c30 
[   61.622004]        f78a3fac c0430bac 00000000 00000002 c0430b71 f881ccbd f8821588 c08ed870 
[   61.622004]        f881d870 00000003 f7867da0 c0431436 f7867dc8 f78a3fd0 c04314ea 00000000 
[   61.622004] Call Trace:
[   61.622004]  [<c0430b71>] ? run_workqueue+0x80/0x186
[   61.622004]  [<c0430bac>] ? run_workqueue+0xbb/0x186
[   61.622004]  [<c0430b71>] ? run_workqueue+0x80/0x186
[   61.622004]  [<f881ccbd>] ? mptspi_dv_renegotiate_work+0x0/0xab [mptspi]
[   61.622004]  [<c0431436>] ? worker_thread+0x0/0xbf
[   61.622004]  [<c04314ea>] ? worker_thread+0xb4/0xbf
[   61.622004]  [<c0433969>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x33
[   61.622004]  [<c04338a7>] ? kthread+0x3b/0x64
[   61.622004]  [<c043386c>] ? kthread+0x0/0x64
[   61.622004]  [<c040468f>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
[   61.622004]  =======================
[   61.622004] Code: ff 8b 87 8c 00 00 ...
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