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

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Date:   Fri, 22 Jan 2021 10:25:12 +0300
From:   Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
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 Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 06:44:54PM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> 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.

It is QtC bug. It will take ages for distros to pick up the fix
(which doesn't even exist probably).