Re: [GIT PULL] Driver core updates for 6.4-rc1

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 04:31:39PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 7:21 AM Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > Once again, a busy development cycle, with lots of changes happening in
> > the driver core in the quest to be able to move "struct bus" and "struct
> > class" into read-only memory, a task now complete with these changes.
> 
> Well, this also caused a build failure, and I didn't catch it during
> the merge, because it only happened on arm64.
> 
> The reason it only happens on arm64 is that it is in the CDX bus
> driver, and that one has
> 
>         depends on OF && ARM64
> 
> despite apparently building fine on x86-64 too if you were to just add
> a "|| COMPILE_TEST" to it.
> 
> And I did notice this build failure eventually, since I do arm64
> builds on my M2 Macbook Air. But while it's a perfectly cromulent
> laptop, it's not like it's a speed daemon. It takes something like ~75
> minutes for afull allmodconfig build, so certainly not between each
> pull request.
> 
> End result: my merge test builds are all done on x86-64, and the arm64
> test builds happen much less regularly (ie: typically a couple of
> times a day).
> 
> I did the obvious fixup, but I can only assume (and hope) that this
> was caught by somebody else during the merge window, and that
> 
> > All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
> > problems.
> 
> was just a lie.

Sorry about that, on it's own, it was fine, but merged with the
char-misc tree, there was a build issue, I had forgotten all about that.
I know we had already resolved one issue with merging this tree with the
DRM tree by reworking the DRM tree in advance, and that had pushed this
instance out of my memory.

In the future, how do you want stuff like "when this is merged with that
tree, something needs to be done" type of things to be pointed out?
linux-next keeps resolution patches around, do you want just a pointer
to that to make things easier?

And thanks for the fixup, it looks correct.

greg k-h