Re: [GIT PULL] Char/Misc driver changes for 6.9-rc1

Nathan Chancellor
2024-03-21T13:48:34Z

On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 02:02:19PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> All of these have been in linux-next for a long time with no reported
> issue, other than a build warning with some older versions of gcc for a
> speakup driver, fix for that will come in a few days when I catch up
> with my pending patch queues.
...
> Samuel Thibault (2):
> speakup: Fix 8bit characters from direct synth
> speakup: Add /dev/synthu device

That build warning actually happens with clang, not GCC as far as I am
aware, and it is actually a hard build error with older versions of
clang, as Arnd points out in his patch to fix this (although the warning
is a hard error with CONFIG_WERROR too, which causes allmodconfig to
break):

https://lore.kernel.org/20240313100413.875280-1-arnd@kernel.org/

Samuel's patch was even simpler:

https://lore.kernel.org/20240309203549.jj2l6epnznyjsrje@begin/

Why was one of these changes not applied before this was sent? I am
aware you were on vacation recently but you are now adding a known issue
to -rc1, which can proliferate to other maintainer's trees and makes
testing for us more difficult :/ -next has been broken for the entire
merge window over this, which is usually when there is a chance we can
get maybe a week of green builds...

Cheers,
Nathan