Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] ARM: use .arch directives instead of assembler command line flags

[Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Nov 08, 2022 at 06:37:02PM +0000, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 08, 2022 at 11:30:39AM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> > I noticed that this series appears to be partially applied in
> > next-20221108:
> > 
> > 59247fe730db ARM: 9265/1: pass -march= only to compiler
> > bc21212c5564 ARM: 9264/1: only use -mtp=cp15 for the compiler
> > 5aa4860eb50f ARM: 9262/1: remove lazy evaluation in Makefile
> > 
> > This patch (submitted as 9263/1) is needed by 9265/1; without it, builds
> > are going to break:
> > 
> > https://builds.tuxbuild.com/2HGSpQMAKxJuaMAz2ZZc1UgUvvu/build.log
> > 
> > Was there a problem with applying this patch or just an oversight? It
> > would be great to get this whole series applied so that we can turn
> > -Wunused-command-line-argument into a hard error.
> 
> Patching 9263/1...
> git apply --whitespace=fix -p1 --index --check > /tmp/pdb.726086 2>&1
> exited with non-zero status: 256
> error: patch failed: arch/arm/mach-mvebu/Makefile:1
> error: arch/arm/mach-mvebu/Makefile: patch does not apply
> 
> The problem appears to be:
> 
> 84fc86360623 ARM: make ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM user-visible
> 
> which is not in my misc branch. I've applied your patch using GNU
> patch with a fuzz of 2, and the resulting diff looks sensible. I'll
> push it out later this evening.
> 
> Thanks for the heads-up.

Perfect, thanks a lot for the quick response! I figured it was something
like that. I will keep an eye out for any additional breakage and follow
up with patches or additional emails as necessary.

Cheers,
Nathan