Re: Build regressions/improvements in v4.9-rc7

From: Anatoly Pugachev
Date: Tue Nov 29 2016 - 06:09:33 EST


On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 11:43 PM, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Anatoly Pugachev <matorola@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 23:40:34 +0300
>
>> On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 5:29 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven
>> <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 3:27 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven
>>> <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> JFYI, when comparing v4.9-rc7[1] to v4.9-rc6[3], the summaries are:
>>>> - build errors: +10/-4
>>>
>>> + /home/kisskb/slave/src/drivers/scsi/qlogicpti.c: error: passing
>>> argument 3 of 'dma_alloc_coherent' from incompatible pointer type
>>> [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]: => 813:9, 822:9
>>> + /home/kisskb/slave/src/sound/sparc/dbri.c: error: passing argument
>>> 3 of 'dma_zalloc_coherent' from incompatible pointer type
>>> [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]: => 2538:6
>>>
>>> sparc64-allmodconfig
>>>
>>>> [1] http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/head/e5517c2a5a49ed5e99047008629f1cd60246ea0e/ (all 267 configs)
>>>> [3] http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/head/9c763584b7c8911106bb77af7e648bef09af9d80/ (all 267 configs)
>>
>> I'm unable to compile kernel as well, bisected in between 4.9-rc7
>> (bad) and 4.9-rc6 (good):
>
> We know about these problems and are working on it.

Latest git (v4.9-rc7-7-g88abd82) fixes kernel compile issue for me.
Thanks.