linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] tracing: Fully silence instance of -Wstring-compare

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Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2024 18:15:09 -0400
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
Cc: mhiramat@...nel.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com,
 ndesaulniers@...gle.com, morbo@...gle.com, justinstitt@...gle.com,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 llvm@...ts.linux.dev, patches@...ts.linux.dev, Linux Kernel Functional
 Testing <lkft@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] tracing: Fully silence instance of -Wstring-compare

On Tue, 19 Mar 2024 09:07:51 -0700
Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> This series fully resolves the new instance of -Wstring-compare from
> within the __assign_str() macro. The first patch resolves a build
> failure with GCC that would be seen with just the second patch applied.
> The second patch actually hides the warning.
> 
> NOTE: This is based on trace/for-next, which does not contain the
> minimum LLVM version bump that occurred later in the current merge
> window, so this uses
> 
>   __diag_ignore(clang, 11, ...
> 
> instead of
> 
>   __diag_ignore(clang, 13, ...
> 
> which will be required when this is merged into Linus's tree. If you can
> base this series on a tree that has the merge commit e5eb28f6d1af ("Merge
> tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2024-03-14-09-36' of
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm") in it, then that
> change can be done at application time, rather than merge time (or I can
> send a v2). It would be really nice for this to make the merge window so
> that this warning does not proliferate into other trees that base on
> -rc1.
> 

I'm guessing this isn't needed with the last update.

-- Steve