Re: Build regressions/improvements in v4.14-rc4

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Mon Oct 09 2017 - 16:35:02 EST


On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 9:19 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> JFYI, when comparing v4.14-rc4[1] to v4.14-rc3[3], the summaries are:
> - build errors: +1/-2

+ error: "devm_ioremap_resource"
[drivers/auxdisplay/img-ascii-lcd.ko] undefined!: => N/A

um-x86_64/um-all{yes,mod}config (patch available)

> - build warnings: +817/-384

Thanks to the addition of um-x86_64 build coverage, a lot of warnings appeared
about missing CRCs for memcpy in modules, e.g.

+ warning: "memcpy" [crypto/af_alg.ko] has no CRC!: => N/A

> [1] http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/head/8a5776a5f49812d29fe4b2d0a2d71675c3facf3f/ (all 269 configs)
> [3] http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/head/9e66317d3c92ddaab330c125dfe9d06eee268aff/ (267 out of 269 configs)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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