Re: [PATCH 1/2] kbuild: provide include/asm/asm-prototypes.h for ARM

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sun Nov 20 2016 - 13:32:58 EST


On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 5:21 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 07:32:00PM +1100, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
>>
>> Michal, what's your thoughts? If you merge my patch 2/2 and skip 1/2, it
>> should not give any new build warnings or errors, so then arch patches can
>> go via arch trees. 1/2 could go in after everyone is up to date.
>
> So what's the conclusion on this? I've just had a failure due to
> CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS reported on ARM, and it looks like (at
> least some of) patch 1 could resolve it.

Hmm. I've got

cc6acc11cad1 kbuild: be more careful about matching preprocessed asm
___EXPORT_SYMBOL
4efca4ed05cb kbuild: modversions for EXPORT_SYMBOL() for asm

in my tree. Is that sufficient, or do we still have issues?

Linus