Re: Linux 4.9.180 build fails with gcc 9 and 'cleanup_module' specifies less restrictive attribute than its target â

From: Miguel Ojeda
Date: Thu Jun 06 2019 - 14:29:52 EST


On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 5:29 PM Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> And if you want this, you should look at how the backports to 4.14.y
> worked, they did not include a3f8a30f3f00 ("Compiler Attributes: use
> feature checks instead of version checks"), as that gets really messy...

I am confused -- I interpreted Rolf's message as reporting that he
already successfully built 4.9 by applying a6e60d84989f
("include/linux/module.h: copy __init/__exit attrs to
init/cleanup_module") and manually fixing it up. But maybe I am
completely wrong... :-)

Cheers,
Miguel