Re: Build regressions/improvements in v4.6-rc4

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 8:53 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Below is the list of build error/warning regressions/improvements in
> v4.6-rc4[1] compared to v4.5[2].
>
> Summarized:
>   - build errors: +11/-7
>   - build warnings: +16376/-165

Sorry for the delay, initially I didn't realize why my first report didn't make
it to the list. It was too big, due to 16211 warnings in parisc-allmodconfig
about "-ffunction-sections disabled; it makes profiling impossible [enabled by
default]".

> JFYI, when comparing v4.6-rc4[1] to v4.6-rc3[3], the summaries are:
>   - build errors: +9/-9

  + /home/kisskb/slave/src/arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_dn.c: error:
'struct pci_dn' has no member named 'edev':  => 272:8
  + /home/kisskb/slave/src/arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_dn.c: error:
dereferencing pointer to incomplete type:  => 215:7
  + /home/kisskb/slave/src/arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_dn.c: error:
implicit declaration of function 'eeh_dev_init'
[-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]:  => 212:3

powerpc-randconfig

  + /home/kisskb/slave/src/drivers/thermal/mtk_thermal.c: error:
implicit declaration of function 'device_reset'
[-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]:  => 560:2

x86_64-randconfig (patch available)

> [1] http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/head/10194/ (all 262 configs)
> [3] http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/head/10162/ (all 262 configs)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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