linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] ARM: use .arch directives instead of assembler command line flags

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Date:   Tue, 8 Nov 2022 11:40:28 -0700
From:   Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
To:     "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        llvm@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] ARM: use .arch directives instead of assembler
 command line flags

On Tue, Nov 08, 2022 at 06:37:02PM +0000, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 08, 2022 at 11:30:39AM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> > I noticed that this series appears to be partially applied in
> > next-20221108:
> > 
> > 59247fe730db ARM: 9265/1: pass -march= only to compiler
> > bc21212c5564 ARM: 9264/1: only use -mtp=cp15 for the compiler
> > 5aa4860eb50f ARM: 9262/1: remove lazy evaluation in Makefile
> > 
> > This patch (submitted as 9263/1) is needed by 9265/1; without it, builds
> > are going to break:
> > 
> > https://builds.tuxbuild.com/2HGSpQMAKxJuaMAz2ZZc1UgUvvu/build.log
> > 
> > Was there a problem with applying this patch or just an oversight? It
> > would be great to get this whole series applied so that we can turn
> > -Wunused-command-line-argument into a hard error.
> 
> Patching 9263/1...
> git apply --whitespace=fix -p1 --index --check > /tmp/pdb.726086 2>&1
> exited with non-zero status: 256
> error: patch failed: arch/arm/mach-mvebu/Makefile:1
> error: arch/arm/mach-mvebu/Makefile: patch does not apply
> 
> The problem appears to be:
> 
> 84fc86360623 ARM: make ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM user-visible
> 
> which is not in my misc branch. I've applied your patch using GNU
> patch with a fuzz of 2, and the resulting diff looks sensible. I'll
> push it out later this evening.
> 
> Thanks for the heads-up.

Perfect, thanks a lot for the quick response! I figured it was something
like that. I will keep an eye out for any additional breakage and follow
up with patches or additional emails as necessary.

Cheers,
Nathan