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SubjectRe: [GIT PULL] strscpy powerpc fix for 3.4
Hi Linus,

On Wed, 7 Oct 2015 20:27:38 -0400 Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/7/2015 6:44 PM, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> >
> > After merging Linus' tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
> > ppc64_defconfig) failed like this:
> >
> > lib/string.c: In function 'strscpy':
> > lib/string.c:209:4: error: implicit declaration of function 'zero_bytemask' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
> > *(unsigned long *)(dest+res) = c & zero_bytemask(data);
> > ^
> >
> > Caused by commit
> >
> > 30035e45753b ("string: provide strscpy()")
>
> I posted a change equivalent to yours earlier today:
>
> http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1444229188-19640-1-git-send-email-cmetcalf@ezchip.com
>
> I also did no testing, but since the rest of the PPC code is similar to the
> asm-generic version, I believe the zero_bytemask() definition should be OK.
>
> It probably should go through Linus' tree, like the previous set of patches.
> I just pushed it up to the linux-tile tree for Linus to grab as:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile.git strscpy
>
> Chris Metcalf (1):
> arch/powerpc: provide zero_bytemask() for big-endian
>
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h | 5 +++++
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> --
> Chris Metcalf, EZChip Semiconductor
> http://www.ezchip.com

Can you please do this pull as most of the powerpc build testing is
failing at the moment ... :-(

--
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au


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