On Thu, Oct 8, 2026 at 9:41 AM Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 8 Oct 2026, at 18:17, Nathan Chancellor wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 08, 2026 at 04:50:44PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > >> On Wed, 7 Oct 2026, at 11:36, Nathan Chancellor wrote: > >> > On Wed, Oct 07, 2026 at 02:32:45AM -0700, Bill Wendling wrote: > >> >> Ard, > >> >> > >> >> What's the reason why x86 doesn't need the KBUILD_CFLAGS flags? Is > >> >> there something that breaks things? > >> > > >> > I think it is mostly historical. See Kees's series to address it: > >> > > >> > https://lore.kernel.org/[email protected]/ > >> > > >> > >> I've queued that up now in the EFI tree. > >> > >> Do we still need this patch then? > > > > I don't think so, since the efistub should now get > > '-fexperimental-late-parse-attributes' from the main KBUILD_CFLAGS, > > which is what prompted this patch in the first place: > > > > > > https://lore.kernel.org/CAGG=3QWCmQ+LVvn2dtjEauj5WFwvx=pvg4q6man_a2imdjr...@mail.gmail.com/ > > > > As I mentioned up thread and to Kees in person, we should still consider > > adding '-fexperimental-late-parse-attributes' into CC_FLAGS_DIALECT to > > cover other areas that may see __counted_by_ptr use but it is probably > > not as high priority. > > > > Excellent.
What Nathan said about needing this patch. Once Kees's stuff is integrated, all should be well and never break again. (very J/K) :-D -bw
