Re: next-20221122: tinyconfig: ppc n s390: kernel/printk/printk.c:95:1: error: type specifier missing, defaults to 'int'; ISO C99 and later do not support implicit int [-Werror,-Wimplicit-int]

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Tue Nov 22 2022 - 11:35:25 EST


On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 04:33:39PM +0106, John Ogness wrote:
> On 2022-11-22, "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> @paulmck: Do you have a problem with permanently activating CONFIG_SRCU?
> >
> > The people wanting it separate back in the day were those wanting very
> > tiny kernels. I have not heard from them in a long time, so maybe it
> > is now OK to just make SRCU unconditional.
>
> Who decides this? Or maybe I should create a semaphore-based Variant of
> console_srcu_read_lock()/console_srcu_read_unlock() for the
> "!CONFIG_PRINTK && !CONFIG_SRCU" case?

As an alternative, I will queue the patch making SRCU unconditional. ;-)

Thanx, Paul