linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/6] kbuild: uapi: various fixes

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Message-ID: <20250812234458.GA52733@ax162>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2025 16:44:58 -0700
From: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
To: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de>
Cc: Nicolas Schier <nicolas.schier@...ux.dev>, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] kbuild: uapi: various fixes

Hi Thomas,

On Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 07:33:03AM +0200, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> Various fixes and promotion of warnings to real errors.
> 
> I didn't add Fixes: tags as digging up the original changes would be
> cumbersome as the code moved a lot over the years.
> Backporting this doesn't make sense anyways.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de>
> ---
> Thomas Weißschuh (6):
>       kbuild: uapi: rerun header tests when headers_check.pl changes
>       kbuild: uapi: only update hdrtest output on success
>       kbuild: uapi: fail header test on compiler warnings
>       kbuild: uapi: upgrade warning on asm/types.h inclusion to error
>       kbuild: uapi: upgrade check_sizetypes() warning to error
>       kbuild: uapi: upgrade check_declarations() warning to error

This series seems reasonable. I did a build of usr/ on arm64 and x86_64
allmodconfig, which showed no issues. I will give Nicolas a few days to
comment, after which I will apply these to the Kbuild tree so we can
start soak testing in -next.

Cheers,
Nathan