Re: Compilation errors

["Fabio M. De Francesco" <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>]

On venerdì 1 aprile 2022 18:09:01 CEST Alison Schofield wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 01, 2022 at 03:07:24PM +0200, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> > On venerdì 1 aprile 2022 14:57:14 CEST Stefano Brivio wrote:
> > > 
> > > Okay, then that's really an error.
> > > 
> > > It might simply be that the you're building some drivers on your
> > > staging tree that you're not building on the mainline tree.
> > 
> > Yes, this is why I've decided to use the .config that I have in Torvald's 
> > tree. They should only differ for the drivers/staging part and the suffix 
> > for vmlinuz.
> > 
> > Now it builds correctly with gcc11 :)
> > 
> > I must look carefully at the diff between the two files and figure out
> > what doesn't work.
> > 
> > However what really counts is that now I can go back to work with "staging".
> > 
> > Thanks for your time,
> > 
> > Fabio 
> 
> Sounds like you all got things moving along wrt the compile issue.

Yes, thank you. The problem was due to UBSan enabled.

> I do want to follow up on a couple of things buried in this thread.
> 
> It's good that compile issue is getting fixed because you can't get
> too far without hitting requirements to build w ALLYESCONFIG or
> ALLMODCONFIG, or the like, while doing kernel development.
> 
> The thought of not compiling before sending is blasphemy ;)

I agree in full. It was just the desperation talking :-)

> wrt the 10 patch cleanup requirement. We often have applicants work
> multiple contribution periods for a multitude of reasons. For applicants
> who already have patches accepted in drivers/staging, we ask that they
> submit a few, to show they are current (if needed). Again, if your 'old'
> patches were from last month, no need to prove currency.

Most of my patches (a bit less than 100) are a bit older. The large part of 
them are since March 2021 to October 2021. In 2022 I have submitted only 
7 patches to net/smc, usb/core, staging. 

But I usually don't do clean-ups. For instance, two recent patches were to
fix bugs reported by Syzbot in "net" and in "usb". A couple of recent 
"staging" patches are about converting kmap() to kmap_local_page().

> So, Fabio, this means for you personally, go ahead and link to prior
> patches when you record your contribution in the Outreachy application.

Therefore, since the number of recent patches is low, can you please confirm
whether or not I can register also some of those of 2021 "to prove currency"?
Please notice that only 4 or 5 are from the last month.

Thanks,

Fabio
 
> Anyone else in this situation, please ask. 
> 
> Thanks,
> Alison