Re: [PATCH v2] kbuild: treat char as always unsigned

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Wed Dec 21 2022 - 16:01:35 EST


On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 10:46:08AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 9:19 AM Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 09:06:41AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > >
> > > I think the real fix is to just remove that broken implementation
> > > entirely, and rely on the generic one.
> >
> > Perfectly fine with me.
>
> That got pushed out as commit 7c0846125358 ("m68k: remove broken
> strcmp implementation") but it's obviously entirely untested. I don't
> do m68k cross-compiles, much less boot tests.
>
> Just FYI for everybody - I may have screwed something up for some very
> non-obvious reason.
>
No worries:

Build reference: msi-fixes-6.2-1-2644-g0a924817d2ed

Building mcf5208evb:m5208:m5208evb_defconfig:initrd ... running ..... passed
Building q800:m68040:mac_defconfig:initrd ... running ..... passed
Building q800:m68040:mac_defconfig:rootfs ... running ..... passed

Guenter