[Fwd: linux-next: build failure after merge of the kbuild tree] On 06/05/2019 (Mon 11:19) Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> In today's linux-next build testing,
> more "make ... explicitly non-modular"
> candidates showed up.
>
Hi Masahiro,
I am not 100% clear on what you are asking me. There are lots and lots
of these in the kernel.... many fixed, and many remain unfortunately.
> arch/arm/plat-omap/dma.c
> drivers/clocksource/timer-ti-dm.c
> drivers/mfd/omap-usb-host.c
> drivers/mfd/omap-usb-tll.c
None of these are "new". I just checked, and I have had patches for all
these for a long time, in my personal queue, found by my audits.
> Would you send patches?
It isn't that simple. I wish it was. Some subsystem maintainers are
glad to take the patches, and some think they are a waste of time and
reject them immediately. Some I've sent just simply get "crickets".
What that means is, that I need to look at each maintainer's
requirements, and ensure the patch and commit log are matching
expectatins - I will not just spam out hundreds of patches across all
subsystems. Anyone who has spent considerable time in linux development
knows that is a recipe for failure.
So I need to work across each subsystem - one at a time, with their
individual maintainer requirements in mind, and if you look at git
history, you will see that has been what I've tried to do when I had
free time to work on fixing these across the whole linux tree.
But fortunately, none of these represent a CVE/security issue, so I've
never had a reason to try and pretend there was any reason for an
immediate fix/merge - they just represent a better attention to detail
in the code we merge and support that I'd like to see happen tree-wide.
I appreciate that you are also interested in seeing all these fixed, and
I also wish they could all be solved in one version, but unfortunately I
don't think that is pragmatic. So in the meantime, I will continue to
chip away at things when we are early in the dev cycle and not starting
the two week merge window, as we are just now.
Thanks,
Paul.
--
>
> I think EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() in omap-usb-tll.c
> are also unnecessary.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, May 6, 2019 at 8:51 AM
> Subject: linux-next: build failure after merge of the kbuild tree
> To: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Linux Kernel
> Mailing List <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Alexey Gladkov
> <gladkov.alexey@xxxxxxxxx>, Keshava Munegowda <keshava_mgowda@xxxxxx>,
> Samuel Ortiz <sameo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> Hi Masahiro,
>
> After merging the kbuild tree, today's linux-next build (arm
> multi_v7_defconfig) failed like this:
>
> In file included from include/linux/module.h:18,
> from drivers/mfd/omap-usb-tll.c:21:
> drivers/mfd/omap-usb-tll.c:462:26: error: expected ',' or ';' before
> 'USBHS_DRIVER_NAME'
> MODULE_ALIAS("platform:" USBHS_DRIVER_NAME);
> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> include/linux/moduleparam.h:26:47: note: in definition of macro '__MODULE_INFO'
> = __MODULE_INFO_PREFIX __stringify(tag) "=" info
> ^~~~
> include/linux/module.h:164:30: note: in expansion of macro 'MODULE_INFO'
> #define MODULE_ALIAS(_alias) MODULE_INFO(alias, _alias)
> ^~~~~~~~~~~
> drivers/mfd/omap-usb-tll.c:462:1: note: in expansion of macro 'MODULE_ALIAS'
> MODULE_ALIAS("platform:" USBHS_DRIVER_NAME);
> ^~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Caused by commit
>
> 6a26793a7891 ("moduleparam: Save information about built-in modules
> in separate file")
>
> USBHS_DRIVER_NAME is not defined and this kbuild tree change has
> exposed it. It has been this way since commit
>
> 16fa3dc75c22 ("mfd: omap-usb-tll: HOST TLL platform driver")
>
> From v3.7-rc1 in 2012.
>
> I have applied the following patch for today.
>
> From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 6 May 2019 09:39:14 +1000
> Subject: [PATCH] mfd: omap: remove unused MODULE_ALIAS from omap-usb-tll.c
>
> USBHS_DRIVER_NAME has never been defined, so this cannot have ever
> been used.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/mfd/omap-usb-tll.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mfd/omap-usb-tll.c b/drivers/mfd/omap-usb-tll.c
> index 446713dbee27..1cc8937e8bec 100644
> --- a/drivers/mfd/omap-usb-tll.c
> +++ b/drivers/mfd/omap-usb-tll.c
> @@ -459,7 +459,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(omap_tll_disable);
>
> MODULE_AUTHOR("Keshava Munegowda <keshava_mgowda@xxxxxx>");
> MODULE_AUTHOR("Roger Quadros <rogerq@xxxxxx>");
> -MODULE_ALIAS("platform:" USBHS_DRIVER_NAME);
> +// MODULE_ALIAS("platform:" USBHS_DRIVER_NAME);
> MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
> MODULE_DESCRIPTION("usb tll driver for TI OMAP EHCI and OHCI controllers");
>
> --
> 2.20.1
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Stephen Rothwell
>
>
> --
> Best Regards
> Masahiro Yamada
