linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] new MIPS compile error on v5.15.27

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2203101640560.47558@angie.orcam.me.uk>
Date:   Thu, 10 Mar 2022 16:48:01 +0000 (GMT)
From:   "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...am.me.uk>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
cc:     "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@...delico.com>,
        Huang Pei <huangpei@...ngson.cn>,
        Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Discussions about the Letux Kernel 
        <letux-kernel@...nphoenux.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] new MIPS compile error on v5.15.27

On Thu, 10 Mar 2022, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> Please fix <asm/asm.h>.   The most trivial fix might be to only defined
> END() under __ASSEMBLY__, although in the long run it probably wants a
> better name as well.

 FWIW the END macro has its roots in IRIX if not MIPSCO.  It's been around 
for some 30 years if not more.  MIPS/ULTRIX may have had it too, as it's 
originally all ECOFF stuff, i.e. `.end', `.ent', `.frame', etc. assembly 
pseudo-ops for symbol/debug information.

  Maciej