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Date:   Mon, 21 Dec 2020 15:18:59 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
To:     Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
Cc:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        "Jason A . Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>,
        Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "open list:KERNEL SELFTEST FRAMEWORK" 
        <linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org>,
        Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        wireguard@...ts.zx2c4.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Compiler Attributes: remove CONFIG_ENABLE_MUST_CHECK

On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 12:27 AM Miguel Ojeda
<miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 4:16 PM Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > Because if you get a report of something breaking for your change, you
> > need to work to resolve it, not argue about it.  Otherwise it needs to
> > be dropped/reverted.
>
> Nobody has argued that. In fact, I explicitly said the opposite: "So I
> think we can fix them as they come.".
>
> I am expecting Masahiro to follow up. It has been less than 24 hours
> since the report, on a weekend.
>
> Cheers,
> Miguel


Sorry for the delay.

Now I sent out the fix for lantiq_etop.c

https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1355595/


The reason of the complication was
I was trying to merge the following patch in the same development cycle:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-kbuild/patch/20201117104736.24997-1-olaf@aepfle.de/


-Werror=return-type gives a bigger impact
because any instance of __must_check violation
results in build breakage.
So, I just dropped it from my tree (and, I will aim for 5.12).

The removal of CONFIG_ENABLE_MUST_CHECK is less impactive,
because we are still able to build with some warnings.


Tomorrow's linux-next should be OK
and, you can send my patch in this merge window.

-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada