On Sun, Mar 3, 2024 at 10:30 AM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 3, 2024 at 3:30 AM Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 3/2/24 14:10, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > > While checkpatch is indeed of arguable value, I think it would help a > > > lot not having to bother about the persistent _build_ failures on > > > 32-bit systems. You mentioned the fancy drm CI system above, but they > > > don't run tests and not even test builds on 32-bit targets, which has > > > repeatedly caused (and currently does cause) build failures in drm > > > code when trying to build, say, arm:allmodconfig in linux-next. Most > > > trivial build failures in linux-next (and, yes, sometimes mainline) > > > could be prevented with a simple generic CI. > > > > Yes, definitely. Thanks for bringing that up. > > +1 > Kisskb can send out email when builds get broken, and when they get > fixed again. I receive such emails for the m68k builds. Like this (yes, one more in DRM; sometimes I wonder if DRM is meant only for 64-bit little-endian platforms with +200 GiB/s memory bandwidth): ---8<------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: kisskb: FAILED linux-next/m68k-allmodconfig/m68k-gcc8 Mon Mar 04, 06:35 To: geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2024 08:05:14 -0000 FAILED linux-next/m68k-allmodconfig/m68k-gcc8 Mon Mar 04, 06:35 http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/buildresult/15135537/ Commit: Add linux-next specific files for 20240304 67908bf6954b7635d33760ff6dfc189fc26ccc89 Compiler: m68k-linux-gcc (GCC) 8.5.0 / GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.36.1 Possible errors --------------- ERROR: modpost: "__udivdi3" [drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i-drm-hdmi.ko] undefined! make[3]: *** [scripts/Makefile.modpost:145: Module.symvers] Error 1 make[2]: *** [Makefile:1871: modpost] Error 2 make[1]: *** [Makefile:240: __sub-make] Error 2 make: *** [Makefile:240: __sub-make] Error 2 No warnings found in log. ------------------------------------------------------------------->8--- Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
