linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] kbuild: provide include/asm/asm-prototypes.h for ARM

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Message-ID: <CA+55aFxh=F77vDAG0Ta9p7Fxf8-b4nCSv1ewfY6ikx3X42zwkA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 20 Nov 2016 10:32:50 -0800
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>,
        Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl>,
        Omar Sandoval <osandov@...ndov.com>,
        Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-arch@...r.kernel.org" <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] kbuild: provide include/asm/asm-prototypes.h for ARM

On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 5:21 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux@...linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 07:32:00PM +1100, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
>>
>> Michal, what's your thoughts? If you merge my patch 2/2 and skip 1/2, it
>> should not give any new build warnings or errors, so then arch patches can
>> go via arch trees. 1/2 could go in after everyone is up to date.
>
> So what's the conclusion on this?  I've just had a failure due to
> CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS reported on ARM, and it looks like (at
> least some of) patch 1 could resolve it.

Hmm. I've got

  cc6acc11cad1 kbuild: be more careful about matching preprocessed asm
___EXPORT_SYMBOL
  4efca4ed05cb kbuild: modversions for EXPORT_SYMBOL() for asm

in my tree. Is that sufficient, or do we still have issues?

             Linus