Re: next-20171103 build: 3 failures 22 warnings (next-20171103)

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 8:27 PM, Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Nov 2017 15:44:53 +0100 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 1:44 PM, Build bot for Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> > Warnings Summary: 22
>> >           2 ../net/sctp/probe.c:240:2: warning: 'unregister_jprobe' is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
>> >           2 ../net/sctp/probe.c:194:3: warning: 'register_jprobe' is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
>> >           2 ../net/sctp/probe.c:189:2: warning: 'register_jprobe' is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
>> >           2 ../net/ipv4/tcp_probe.c:298:2: warning: 'unregister_jprobe' is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
>> >           2 ../net/ipv4/tcp_probe.c:280:2: warning: 'register_jprobe' is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
>> >           2 ../net/dccp/probe.c:190:2: warning: 'unregister_jprobe' is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
>> >           2 ../net/dccp/probe.c:170:4: warning: 'register_jprobe' is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
>> >           2 ../net/dccp/probe.c:166:2: warning: 'register_jprobe' is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
>> >           1 ../arch/arm/probes/kprobes/test-core.c:398:2: warning: 'unregister_jprobe' is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
>> >           1 ../arch/arm/probes/kprobes/test-core.c:390:2: warning: 'register_jprobe' is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
>>
>> I need a little help from Masami Hiramatsu to understand what the plan is here:
>> Do we just need to remove those files now that jprobes are gone, or do
>> we actually want to restore the functionality using some other replacement code?
>>
>> I'm asking because the __deprecated warning seems unhelpful if there
>> isn't an easy way to address the warning.
>
> It seems that the arm/probes case is just for testing, I'll just remove it
> because it's functionality is gone.

Makes sense, thanks!

> Others should be decided by network maintainers. Maybe those are not used anymore,
> or should be rewritten by kprobes or ftrace.

Added a few people to cc that worked on {tcp,dccp,sctp}_probe in the past
for clarification. Do you already have plans to deal with this?

        Arnd