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Date:   Thu, 6 Jun 2019 20:25:28 +0200
From:   Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
To:     Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:     Rolf Eike Beer <eb@...ix.com>, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 4.9.180 build fails with gcc 9 and 'cleanup_module' specifies less restrictive attribute than its target …

On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 5:29 PM Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> wrote:
>
> And if you want this, you should look at how the backports to 4.14.y
> worked, they did not include a3f8a30f3f00 ("Compiler Attributes: use
> feature checks instead of version checks"), as that gets really messy...

I am confused -- I interpreted Rolf's message as reporting that he
already successfully built 4.9 by applying a6e60d84989f
("include/linux/module.h: copy __init/__exit attrs to
init/cleanup_module") and manually fixing it up. But maybe I am
completely wrong... :-)

Cheers,
Miguel