netdev - Re: [patch 1/1] kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c: work around gcc-4.4.4 anon union initialization bug

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Message-ID: <578DE27A.2090906@iogearbox.net>
Date:	Tue, 19 Jul 2016 10:19:06 +0200
From:	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
To:	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
CC:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, davem@...emloft.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, ast@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/1] kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c: work around gcc-4.4.4 anon
 union initialization bug

On 07/19/2016 05:07 AM, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 07:38:27PM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 08:38:02AM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 05:33:07PM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
[...]
>>> >Fengguang can you add gcc-4.4 to buildbot. Thanks!
>>>
>>> Sure. Currently we only test gcc-6. It'd be easy to test more versions
>>> concurrently, like
>>>
>>> gcc-4.4
>>> gcc-4.6
>>> gcc-4.8
>>> gcc-4.9
>>> gcc-5
>>> gcc-6
>>
>> thanks! If you need to reduce the test matrix I don't see a concern
>> of dropping 4.6 and 4.8.
>> 4.4 is good for old stuff, 4.9 is the most stable and 5/6 are good
>> for new warnings.
>
> Not a burden at all. I've enabled them all. :)

Nice, thanks a lot Fengguang!