linux-next: ttydev tree build failure

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Thu Oct 23 18:34:06 EST 2008


On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:29:38 +1100
Stephen Rothwell <sfr at canb.auug.org.au> wrote:

> Hi Alan,
> 
> Today's linux-next build (powerpc ppc64_defconfig) failed like this:
> 
> drivers/char/hvc_console.c: In function 'hvc_set_winsz':
> drivers/char/hvc_console.c:532: warning: passing argument 2 of 'tty_do_resize' from incompatible pointer type
> drivers/char/hvc_console.c:532: error: too many arguments to function 'tty_do_resize'
> 
> Caused by commit eb6ab2d361a49470ca9785c70482772c19e49bec
> ("pty-simplify-resize") from the ttydev tree interacting with commit
> febde3711992a64ea83a47a719f68a90c4b0927a ("hvc_console: Add support for
> tty window resizing").
> 
> The former added another call to the function that the latter changed.
> 
> I applied the following patch

Patch is correct.

Do the hvc patches have dependancies on the PPC tree as well as the tty
tree ?



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