Messages in this thread | | | From | Masahiro Yamada <> | Date | Wed, 28 Feb 2018 10:30:58 +0900 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] sparse doesn't support indirect_branch attribute |
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2018-02-28 7:36 GMT+09:00 Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com>: > On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 02:12:28PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 12:18 PM, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> wrote: >> > >> > I don't mind the patch, but I did send a patch for this attribute on Feb. 13, 2018, >> > to the sparse mailing list. >> >> I think the sparse plan is to just stop warning about unknown >> attributes, because it doesn't really help users (at most it's a note >> to a sparse developer). >> >> But sparse doesn't have the same regular releases the kernel has. Oh well. > > To compensate this, I sent a patch to use '-Wno-unknown-attribute' for kernel > builds. Masahiro Yamada has already taken it to the linux-kbuild tree. > I'm not sure if it's planned for the next -rc or for 4.17, though. > > -- Luc Van Oostenryck
I am planning to send it in the next MW (i.e. v4.17-rc1)
If you want me to send this earlier as fixes PR, please let me know.
-- Best Regards Masahiro Yamada
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