Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Jan 2014 09:36:13 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH stable-only] virtio-net: fix build on m68k and sparc64 | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> |
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On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote: > As a result of backporting a bugfix, virtio_net started passing void * > to page_address, assuming that it will get silently converted to struct > page *. But this does not happen on architectures where page_address is > a macro, the result is build failure as the macro tries to dereference > void*. > > Fix by reordering code slightly, so we always pass > struct page * to page_address.
Thanks for the clue! I was just investigating a similar failure in -next.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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