Re: linux-next: Tree for Oct 23

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 8:17 AM Shaokun Zhang
<zhangshaokun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> +Cc: Mark Salyzyn
>
> There is a compiler failure on arm64 platform, as follow:
> zhangshaokun@ubuntu:~/linux-next$ make -j64
>   CALL    scripts/atomic/check-atomics.sh
>   CC      arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.s
> In file included from ./include/linux/sysctl.h:30:0,
>                  from ./include/linux/umh.h:9,
>                  from ./include/linux/kmod.h:9,
>                  from ./include/linux/module.h:13,
>                  from ./include/linux/acpi.h:29,
>                  from ./include/acpi/apei.h:9,
>                  from ./include/acpi/ghes.h:5,
>                  from ./include/linux/arm_sdei.h:8,
>                  from arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.c:10:
> ./include/uapi/linux/sysctl.h:561:29: error: expected â,â or â}â before â__attribute__â
>   NET_IPV6_TEMP_PREFERED_LFT __attribute__((deprecated)) = /* NOTYPO */
>                              ^
> scripts/Makefile.build:99: recipe for target 'arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.s' failed
> make[1]: *** [arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.s] Error 1
> Makefile:1108: recipe for target 'prepare0' failed
> make: *** [prepare0] Error 2
>
> It's the commit <79f0cf35dccb> ("treewide: cleanup: replace prefered with preferred").

After receiving a report from kisskb for failures for m68k, looking at
http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/head/f3c452cfc59c817950b150b51ec2b33409d7640b/
and doing some testing, it looks like this construct is supported by gcc-7
and gcc-8, but not by gcc-4.6.3 and gcc-5. Don't know about gcc-6.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert


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