Re: [PATCH] genksyms: Ignore module scoped _Static_assert()

[Andrew Morton]

On Thu, 10 Dec 2020 17:25:30 +0100 Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Dec 2020 at 14:29, Miguel Ojeda
> <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 11:35 AM Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > It looks like there's no clear MAINTAINER for this. :-/
> > > It'd still be good to fix this for 5.11.
> >
> > Richard seems to be the author, not sure if he picks patches (CC'd).
> >
> > I guess Masahiro or akpm (Cc'd) would be two options; otherwise, I
> > could pick it up through compiler attributes (stretching the
> > definition...).
> 
> Thanks for the info. I did find that there's an alternative patch to
> fix _Static_assert() with genksyms that was sent 3 days after mine
> (it's simpler, but might miss cases). I've responded there (
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/X9JI5KpWoo23wkRg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ).
> 
> Now we have some choice. I'd argue for this patch, because it's not
> doing preprocessor workarounds, but in the end I won't make that call.
> :-)

I have
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201203230955.1482058-1-arnd@xxxxxxxxxx
queued for later this week.