From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754948AbeDPNP7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Apr 2018 09:15:59 -0400 Received: from mail-ua0-f194.google.com ([209.85.217.194]:37698 "EHLO mail-ua0-f194.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753479AbeDPNP5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Apr 2018 09:15:57 -0400 X-Google-Smtp-Source: AIpwx49PcnAoT75idlIllFpsVrnn99ArAMnX7YHawYvqO1abTkz3C4y7md1CqNw0EvMQhDVFnKwxrWtVhgV3YXEpTMw= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1523884165-17044-1-git-send-email-geert@linux-m68k.org> References: <1523884165-17044-1-git-send-email-geert@linux-m68k.org> From: Geert Uytterhoeven Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 15:15:56 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: zGcFdxJMAlmPnT5oVSpGGcSzoQ8 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Build regressions/improvements in v4.17-rc1 To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Cc: "the arch/x86 maintainers" , "James E.J. Bottomley" , Helge Deller Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 3:09 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Below is the list of build error/warning regressions/improvements in > v4.17-rc1[1] compared to v4.16[2]. > > Summarized: > - build errors: +2/-10 > - build warnings: +1407/-1867 > > Note that there may be false regressions, as some logs are incomplete. > Still, they're build errors/warnings. > > Happy fixing! ;-) > > Thanks to the linux-next team for providing the build service. > > [1] http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/head/60cc43fc888428bb2f18f08997432d426a243338/ (244 out of 246 configs) > [2] http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/head/0adb32858b0bddf4ada5f364a84ed60b196dbcda/ (all 246 configs) > > > *** ERRORS *** > > 2 error regressions: > + /kisskb/src/include/linux/thread_info.h: error: call to '__bad_copy_from' declared with attribute error: copy source size is too small: => 138:19 i386-allmodconfig > + error: No rule to make target arch/parisc/kernel/binfmt_elf32.o: => N/A parisc64/a500_defconfig (patch available) > *** WARNINGS *** > > [Deleted 799 lines about "warning: ... [-Wpointer-sign]" on parisc-allmodconfig] > [Deleted 1480 lines about "warning: -ffunction-sections disabled; it makes profiling impossible [enabled by default]" on parisc-allmodconfig] BTW, are there any plans to fix/silence these warrnings? Or should I look into automating their removal from the logs/report (optimistic me keeps on postponing that task :-)? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds