Re: [PATCH] sparse doesn't support indirect_branch attribute

From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Thu Mar 01 2018 - 05:24:22 EST


2018-03-01 19:06 GMT+09:00 Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 10:30:58AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>> 2018-02-28 7:36 GMT+09:00 Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> >
>> > To compensate this, I sent a patch to use '-Wno-unknown-attribute' for kernel
>> > builds. Masahiro Yamada has already taken it to the linux-kbuild tree.
>> > I'm not sure if it's planned for the next -rc or for 4.17, though.
>>
>> I am planning to send it in the next MW (i.e. v4.17-rc1)
>>
>> If you want me to send this earlier as fixes PR,
>> please let me know.
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for having taken this patch promptly.
> Given that the warnings is issued more than 148000 and thus tend
> to drown the other, more useful, warnings in the noise, I think
> it would be a good thing to have this patch already in 4.16.
> I should have put this clearly in the patch description.
>
> Best regards,
> -- Luc Van Oostenryck


OK. I will send a PR for v4.16-rc4 this weekend.





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Masahiro Yamada