Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] ath10k: fix ath10k_pci struct layout

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 2:17 PM Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >>
> >> Change it to a flexible-array member and move it last again to
> >> make it work correctly, prevent the same thing from happening
> >> again (all compilers warn about flexible-array members in the
> >> middle of a struct) and get it to build without warnings.
> >
> > Very good find, thanks! This bug would cause all sort of strange memory
> > corruption issues.
>
> This motivated me to switch to using GCC 10.x and I noticed that you had
> already upgraded crosstool so it was a trivial thing to do, awesome :)
>
> https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/
>
> I use crosstool like this using GNUmakefile:
>
> CROSS_COMPILE=/opt/cross/gcc-10.1.0-nolibc/x86_64-linux/bin/x86_64-linux-
> include Makefile

Right, I have something similar (with many more additional things)
in a local makefile here.  I mainly use that to pick the correct cross
toolchain based on ${ARCH}, and to build multiple randconfig kernels
in parallel with 'make -j${NR_CPUS}' for better CPU utilization.

> I think it's handy trick and would be good to mention that in the
> crosstool main page. That way I could just point people to the crosstool
> main page when they are using ancient compilers and would need to
> upgrade.

I actually started working on a script that I'd like to include the kernel
sources to list the installed compilers, automatically pick on that
works for the current architecture, or download one for local installation.

      Arnd