Re: [PATCH] Enable '-Werror' by default for all kernel builds

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 7:16 AM Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 9/7/21 9:48 PM, Al Viro wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 07, 2021 at 09:28:38PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> >>      memcpy(eth_addr, sanitize_address((void *) 0xfffc1f2c), ETH_ALEN);
> >>
> >> but that just seems weird. Is there a better solution ?
> >
> > (char (*)[ETH_ALEN])?  Said that, shouldn't that be doing something like
> > ioremap(), rather than casting explicit constants?
>
> Typecasts or even assigning the address to a variable does not help.
> The sanitizer function can not be static either.

So it can only be fixed by obfuscating the constant address in a
chain of out-of-line functions...
How is this compiler to be used for bare-metal programming?

> I don't know the hardware, so I can not answer the ioremap() question.

Yes it should.  But this driver dates back to 2.1.110, when only
half of the architectures already had ioremap().

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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