netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] ibmvnic: workaround QT Creator/libCPlusPlus segfault

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Message-ID: <20210121184454.0ef91be3@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
Date:   Thu, 21 Jan 2021 18:44:54 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, drt@...ux.ibm.com,
        ljp@...ux.ibm.com, sukadev@...ux.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] ibmvnic: workaround QT Creator/libCPlusPlus
 segfault

On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 01:07:39 +0300 Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> My name is Alexey and I've tried to use IDE for kernel development.
> 
> QT Creator segfaults while parsing ibmvnic.c which is annoying as it
> will start parsing after restart only to crash again.
> 
> The workaround is to either exclude ibmvnic.c from list of project files
> or to apply dummy ifdef to hide the offending code.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1886548
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>

That's a bug in QT Creator and whatever parsing it does/uses.

Sorry we can't take this patch, there is no indication that the kernel
code is actually wrong here.