Re: [PATCH v3 3/6] staging: r8188eu: add error handling of rtw_read8

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On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 6:44 AM Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 8/25/21 4:34 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 04:02:26PM +0300, Pavel Skripkin wrote:
> >> > This is not related to your patch.  Ignore it.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > > > vim +2022 drivers/staging/r8188eu/hal/usb_halinit.c
> >> > > >
> >> > >
> >> > > >    2020                case HW_VAR_BCN_VALID:
> >> > > >    2021                        /* BCN_VALID, BIT(16) of REG_TDECTRL = BIT(0) of REG_TDECTRL+2, write 1 to clear, Clear by sw */
> >> > > > > 2022                         u8 tmp;
> >> > >
> >> > > Hm, I don't know anything about ARM compilers, so should I wrap this code
> >> > > block with {}?
> >> >
> >> > Yep.
> >> >
> >> > >
> >> > > My local gcc 11.1.1 (x86_64) does not produce any warnings/errors
> >> > >
> >> >
> >> > You should figure out whats up with that because it shouldn't compile
> >> > with the gcc options that the kernel uses.
> >> >
> >>
> >> AFAIK, at least 2 guys except me in this CC list compiled my series without
> >> errors/warnings. Maybe, staging tree is missing some Makefile updates?
> >>
> >>
> >> I'll resend series this evening anyway, but this is strange....
> >
> > Hm...  In my version of GCC the error is:
> >
> > drivers/staging/r8188eu/hal/usb_halinit.c:1870:3: error: a label can only be part of a statement and a declaration is not a statement
> >
> > That's a different error from what I was expecting.  It's caused by
> > having a declaration directly after a case statement.  The warning that
> > I was expecting was from -Wdeclaration-after-statement and it looks
> > like this:
> >
> > warning: ISO C90 forbids mixed declarations and code [-Wdeclaration-after-statement]
> >
> > You really should try investigate why this compiles for you because
> > something is going wrong.  It should not build without a warning.
> >
>
> Looks like it's bug in gcc 11.1.1. I've rebuilt this module with gcc 10
> (gcc-10 (SUSE Linux) 10.3.1 20210707 [revision
> 048117e16c77f82598fca9af585500572d46ad73]) and build fails with error
> described above
>
>
> My default gcc is
>
> gcc (SUSE Linux) 11.1.1 20210721 [revision
> 076930b9690ac3564638636f6b13bbb6bc608aea]
>
>
> Any idea? :)

The original report said the build was with clang-14, which is near
top of tree and unreleased. It's possible that that build had a bug
that hopefully was reverted.

-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers




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