On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 02:00:27PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
quoted text
> Hi all,
> 
> Today's linux-next build (powerpc ppc64_defconfig) fails like this:
> 
> fs/xfs/xfs_ialloc.c: In function 'xfs_ialloc_ag_alloc':
> fs/xfs/xfs_ialloc.c:301: error: implicit declaration of function 'random32'
> 
> I added
> 
> #include <linux/random.h>
> 
> after the other includes in fs/xfs/xfs_ialloc.c, but there is probably a
> better fix.
> 
> The commit that seems to have caused this
> 6309a0720469beb77e0ab75f403a98a0aba4140c ("XFS] Don't initialise new
> inode generation numbers to zero") in the xfs tree that I have seems to
> have just gone into Linus' tree as commit
> 359346a9655c8800408ed3ca44517ac7ea95c197.

Ah, I see the problem - a CONFIG_XFS_DEBUG build includes linux/random.h
in a debug header file. That's probably why I didn't catch it (I need to
check the .config on my build test tree).

I'll get it fixed properly, but in the mean time the include you've got
there will suffice...

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group
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