On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 04:05:16PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 16:05:16 +0000
> From: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>,
> linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.4 04/35] MIPS: Update defconfigs for
> NF_CT_PROTO_DCCP/UDPLITE change
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> On Thu, 2017-03-16 at 23:29 +0900, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > 4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> >
> > ------------------
> >
> > From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> >
> > commit 9ddc16ad8e0bc7742fc96d5aaabc5b8698512cd1 upstream.
> >
> > In linux-4.10-rc, NF_CT_PROTO_UDPLITE and NF_CT_PROTO_DCCP are bool
> > symbols instead of tristate, and kernelci.org reports a bunch of
> > warnings for this, like:
> >
> > arch/mips/configs/malta_kvm_guest_defconfig:63:warning: symbol value 'm' invalid for NF_CT_PROTO_UDPLITE
> > arch/mips/configs/malta_defconfig:62:warning: symbol value 'm' invalid for NF_CT_PROTO_DCCP
> > arch/mips/configs/malta_defconfig:63:warning: symbol value 'm' invalid for NF_CT_PROTO_UDPLITE
> > arch/mips/configs/ip22_defconfig:70:warning: symbol value 'm' invalid for NF_CT_PROTO_DCCP
> > arch/mips/configs/ip22_defconfig:71:warning: symbol value 'm' invalid for NF_CT_PROTO_UDPLITE
> >
> > This changes all the MIPS defconfigs with these symbols to have them
> > built-in.
> >
> > Fixes: 9b91c96c5d1f ("netfilter: conntrack: built-in support for UDPlite")
> > Fixes: c51d39010a1b ("netfilter: conntrack: built-in support for DCCP")
> [...]
>
> I don't think this was needed for 4.4 or 4.9, as those symbols were
> still tristate type.
Indeed, there's no waring for "make ARCH=mips malta_kvm_guest_defconfig".
Ralf