linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the tip tree

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Date:   Fri, 23 Jun 2017 14:10:25 +1000
From:   Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
To:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Linux-Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        PowerPC <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the tip tree

Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> [Forgot to cc John]
>
> On Fri, 23 Jun 2017 13:58:34 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> After merging the tip tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
>> ppc64_defconfig) produced this warning:
>> 
>> kernel/time/timekeeping.c:519:2: warning: #warning Please contact your maintainers, as GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD compatibity will disappear soon. [-Wcpp]
>>  #warning Please contact your maintainers, as GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD compatibity will disappear soon.
>>   ^
>> kernel/time/timekeeping.c:519:2: warning: #warning Please contact your maintainers, as GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD compatibity will disappear soon. [-Wcpp]
>>  #warning Please contact your maintainers, as GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD compatibity will disappear soon.
>>   ^
>> 
>> Introduced by commit
>> 
>>   369adf04d80a ("time: Add warning about imminent deprecation of CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD")

Fixed in my next today by:

  d4cfb11387ee ("powerpc: Convert VDSO update function to use new update_vsyscall interface")

But you must have pulled before I pushed that, so the warning will go
away tomorrow.

cheers