On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]> wrote: > JFYI, when comparing v3.18-rc2[1] to v3.18-rc1[3], the summaries are: > - build errors: +16/-17
+ /scratch/kisskb/src/Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c: error: (near initialization for 'virtblk_dev_page.blk_config.capacity'): => 152:3 + /scratch/kisskb/src/Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c: error: (near initialization for 'virtblk_dev_page.blk_config.seg_max'): => 151:3 + /scratch/kisskb/src/Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c: error: (near initialization for 'virtblk_dev_page.host_features'): => 149:3 + /scratch/kisskb/src/Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c: error: (near initialization for 'virtnet_dev_page.host_features'): => 119:3 + /scratch/kisskb/src/Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c: error: braced-group within expression allowed only inside a function: => 146:10, 93:10, 116:10, 96:10, 113:10 + /scratch/kisskb/src/Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c: error: initializer element is not constant: => 151:3, 119:3, 152:3, 149:3 powerpc-randconfig On big-endian, the htoleX macros expand to function calls, which is not compatible with static initialization. + /scratch/kisskb/src/Documentation/prctl/disable-tsc-ctxt-sw-stress-test.c: error: impossible register constraint in 'asm': => 34:1 + /scratch/kisskb/src/Documentation/prctl/disable-tsc-on-off-stress-test.c: error: impossible register constraint in 'asm': => 36:1 + /scratch/kisskb/src/Documentation/prctl/disable-tsc-test.c: error: impossible register constraint in 'asm': => 36:1 powerpc-randconfig Embedding x86-specific asm in sample code is not portable. Building this should probably depend on x86? > [1] http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/head/8016/ (all 119 configs) > [3] http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/head/8002/ (all 119 configs) Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [email protected] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

