2018-02-28 7:36 GMT+09:00 Luc Van Oostenryck <[email protected]>: > On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 02:12:28PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 12:18 PM, Randy Dunlap <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > I don't mind the patch, but I did send a patch for this attribute on Feb. >> > 13, 2018, >> > to the sparse mailing list. >> >> I think the sparse plan is to just stop warning about unknown >> attributes, because it doesn't really help users (at most it's a note >> to a sparse developer). >> >> But sparse doesn't have the same regular releases the kernel has. Oh well. > > To compensate this, I sent a patch to use '-Wno-unknown-attribute' for kernel > builds. Masahiro Yamada has already taken it to the linux-kbuild tree. > I'm not sure if it's planned for the next -rc or for 4.17, though. > > -- Luc Van Oostenryck
I am planning to send it in the next MW (i.e. v4.17-rc1) If you want me to send this earlier as fixes PR, please let me know. -- Best Regards Masahiro Yamada
