Re: [PATCH] clk: uniphier: Fix build with gcc-4.4.

From: Stephen Boyd
Date: Tue Dec 06 2016 - 18:16:50 EST


On 12/03, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Hi Vinson,
>
> 2016-12-03 9:37 GMT+09:00 Vinson Lee <vlee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > gcc-4.4 has issues with anonymous unions in initializers.
> >
> > CC drivers/clk/uniphier/clk-uniphier-sys.o
> > drivers/clk/uniphier/clk-uniphier-sys.c:45: error: unknown field âfactorâ specified in initializer
> >
> > Fixes: 1574d5722636 ("clk: uniphier: remove unneeded member name for union")
> > Signed-off-by: Vinson Lee <vlee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> This driver has COMPILE_TEST option, but kbuild test robot
> did not mention about this.
>
>
>
> This is a bad way of fixing, I think.
> (what if a new member is inserted before the union in the future?)
>
> Rather, please revert the bad commit.
>

Reverting on top of clk-next will cause build failures though.
Can you resend the patch series without this first patch please?
I'll apply them then.

I'll go drop all three patches and wreck Andrew's merge of this
patch to -mm.

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