Re: Build regressions/improvements in v4.18-rc3

From: Helge Deller
Date: Mon Jul 02 2018 - 11:13:46 EST


On 02.07.2018 16:09, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 4:01 PM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> JFYI, when comparing v4.18-rc3[1] to v4.18-rc2[3], the summaries are:
> ...

Both of the following are simply happening because of old compiler which is being used:

>> [Deleted 26903 lines about "warning: ... [-Wpointer-sign]" on parisc-allmodconfig]

?

>> [Deleted 19308 lines about "warning: -ffunction-sections disabled; it makes profiling impossible [enabled by default]" on parisc-allmodconfig]

I dropped function-sections:
http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=24b6c22504a27210a8377e54d24d425ae414f2c1
Still need to see if this gives problems (haven't seen any yet).

Helge