Re: [PATCH 3.2 00/94] 3.2.62-rc1 review

[Guenter Roeck]

On Mon, Aug 04, 2014 at 08:49:39PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-08-04 at 10:55 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 04, 2014 at 05:48:31PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.2.62 release.
> > > There are 94 patches in this series, which will be posted as responses
> > > to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > > let me know.
> > > 
> > > Responses should be made by Wed Aug 06 17:00:00 UTC 2014.
> > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > > 
> > Build results:
> > 	total: 111 pass: 105 fail: 6
> > Failed builds:
> > 	microblaze:mmu_defconfig
> > 	microblaze:nommu_defconfig
> > 	mips:allmodconfig
> > 	sparc64:allmodconfig
> > 	xtensa:defconfig
> > 	xtensa:allmodconfig
> > 
> > Qemu tests all passed.
> > 
> > This is a significant improvement over the previous versions, where we used
> > to see up to 10 build failures. The previously failing builds for unicore32
> > and score now pass, as well as alpha:allmodconfig.
> 
> Yes, I spent a little while digging out build fixes.
> 
> I tried to fix the mips allmodconfig build, but failed - it needs
> d3ce88431892, but that depends on 20082595d341, bef9ae3d883c, and
> further changes I couldn't identify. 
> 
> I was unable to reproduce the sparc64 allmodconfig build failure, which
> is in samples/hidraw - it built for me without warnings or errors.
> Could you give me a bit more detail about the test setup?
> 
Nothing special, really - Ubuntu 14.4 (previously 13.10), with gcc 4.6.3
from kernel.org.

This seems to be related to patch cbf1ef6 (sparc: use asm-generic version of
types.h). After backporting it, the build passes for me. The backport is
attached in case you want to give it a try.

Guenter
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