Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the arm tree

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Tue, 28 Nov 2017, Russell King wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 10:16:37AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Hi Russell,
> > 
> > After merging the arm tree, today's linux-next build (arm
> > multi_v7_defconfig) produced this warning:
> > 
> > arch/arm/vfp/vfphw.S: Assembler messages:
> > arch/arm/vfp/vfphw.S:158: Warning: conditional infixes are deprecated in unified syntax
> > arch/arm/vfp/vfphw.S:233: Warning: conditional infixes are deprecated in unified syntax
> > arch/arm/kernel/entry-common.S: Assembler messages:
> > arch/arm/kernel/entry-common.S:285: Warning: conditional infixes are deprecated in unified syntax
> > arch/arm/kernel/entry-common.S:286: Warning: conditional infixes are deprecated in unified syntax
> > arch/arm/kernel/entry-common.S:365: Warning: conditional infixes are deprecated in unified syntax
> > 
> > And many more similar.
> > 
> > Presumably introduced by commit
> > 
> >   cabcafe5d1a5 ("ARM: 8723/1: always assume the "unified" syntax for assembly code")
> 
> Well, I seem to be missing all results from the various kernel build
> systems, so I've no idea what's going on with those - although kernelci
> has sent me boot results with no build results... our test systems
> seem to be unreliable.
> 
> Dropping Nicolas' commit, there's obviously something wrong with it
> somewhere.  Nicolas, can you reproduce these problems?

I'll investigate right away.


Nicolas