Re: [ 00/17] 3.4.58-stable review

Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-08-13T20:49:44Z

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 10:19 PM, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
> powerpc/chroma_defconfig:
> arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c: In function 'do_init_bootmem':
> arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c:529:19: error: 'aa.arrays' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
> arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c:642:22: note: 'aa.arrays' was declared here
> cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
>
> No idea. Code looks all different in 3.10.

Never seen in my log collection from kissb, which doesn't build
chroma_defconfig.

> m68k/allmodconfig:
> drivers/hid/hid-microsoft.c: In function 'ms_report_fixup':
> drivers/hid/hid-microsoft.c:52:18: error: macro "memcmp" passed 6 arguments, but takes just 3
> drivers/hid/hid-microsoft.c:51:5: error: 'memcmp' undeclared (first use in this function)
> drivers/hid/hid-microsoft.c:51:5: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in

Fixed in v3.7-rc6:

commit 6b90466cfec2a2fe027187d675d8d14217c12d82
Author: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Date: Mon Nov 12 10:16:09 2012 +0100

HID: microsoft: do not use compound literal - fix build

> blackfin/defconfig:
> ERROR: "vm_iomap_memory" [drivers/video/fb.ko] undefined!
> make[1]: *** [__modpost] Error 1
>
> sh/defconfig:
> drivers/built-in.o: In function `fb_mmap':
> fbmem.c:(.text+0x5e8): undefined reference to `vm_iomap_memory'
>
> Both look similar and might be easy to fix if someone knows what is wrong.

Fixed in v3.9:

commit 3c0b9de6d37a481673e81001c57ca0e410c72346
Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Sat Apr 27 13:25:38 2013 -0700

vm: add no-mmu vm_iomap_memory() stub

> cris/...:
> In file included from include/linux/page-flags.h:8:0,
> from kernel/bounds.c:9:
> include/linux/types.h:25:1: error: unknown type name '__kernel_ino_t'
> include/linux/types.h:29:1: error: unknown type name '__kernel_off_t'
> include/linux/types.h:30:1: error: unknown type name '__kernel_pid_t'
> include/linux/types.h:31:1: error: unknown type name '__kernel_daddr_t'
> include/linux/types.h:33:1: error: unknown type name '__kernel_suseconds_t'
>
> That one might be tricky (or simple if someone knows what is wrong).

Fixed in v3.5-rc1:

commit 74f077d2a7651409c44bb323471f219a4b0d2aab
Author: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Date: Mon Apr 2 13:40:17 2012 +0200

cris: posix_types.h, include asm-generic/posix_types.h

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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