Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the efi tree

From: Ard Biesheuvel
Date: Tue Aug 22 2023 - 03:32:49 EST


Hello Stephen,

On Tue, 22 Aug 2023 at 08:49, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> After merging the efi tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64 allmodconfig)
> failed like this:
>
> In file included from drivers/platform/x86/uv_sysfs.c:14:
> arch/x86/include/asm/uv/bios.h:118:22: error: expected ')' before '*' token
> 118 | u64 (__efiapi *function)(enum uv_bios_cmd, ...);
> | ^~
> | )
>
> Caused by commit
>
> 73632c8c865f ("efi/runtime-wrappers: Remove duplicated macro for service returning void")
>

Thanks for the report.

I cannot reproduce this with Debian's GCC 12.2.0 when building the
efi/next tree either in isolation, or merged into yesterday's next.

Could you please share the compiler version and the .config you used? Thanks.

--
Ard.