Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"It has been a relatively quiet cycle in docsland.
- As promised, the minimum Sphinx version to build the docs is now
1.7, and we have dropped support for Python 2 entirely. That
allowed the removal of a bunch of compatibility code.
- A set of treewide warning fixups from Mauro that I applied after it
became clear nobody else was going to deal with them.
- The automarkup mechanism can now create cross-references from
relative paths to RST files.
- More translations, typo fixes, and warning fixes"
* tag 'docs-5.12' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (75 commits)
docs: kernel-hacking: be more civil
docs: Remove the Microsoft rhetoric
Documentation/admin-guide: kernel-parameters: Update nohlt section
doc/admin-guide: fix spelling mistake: "perfomance" -> "performance"
docs: Document cross-referencing using relative path
docs: Enable usage of relative paths to docs on automarkup
docs: thermal: fix spelling mistakes
Documentation: admin-guide: Update kvm/xen config option
docs: Make syscalls' helpers naming consistent
coding-style.rst: Avoid comma statements
Documentation: /proc/loadavg: add 3 more field descriptions
Documentation/submitting-patches: Add blurb about backtraces in commit messages
Docs: drop Python 2 support
Move our minimum Sphinx version to 1.7
Documentation: input: define ABS_PRESSURE/ABS_MT_PRESSURE resolution as grams
scripts/kernel-doc: add internal hyperlink to DOC: sections
Update Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst
docs: Update DTB format references
docs: zh_CN: add iio index.rst translation
docs/zh_CN: add iio ep93xx_adc.rst translation
...
Pull devicetree updates from Rob Herring:
- Sync dtc to upstream version v1.6.0-51-g183df9e9c2b9 and build host
fdtoverlay
- Add kbuild support to build DT overlays (%.dtbo)
- Drop NULLifying match table in of_match_device().
In preparation for this, there are several driver cleanups to use
(of_)?device_get_match_data().
- Drop pointless wrappers from DT struct device API
- Convert USB binding schemas to use graph schema and remove old plain
text graph binding doc
- Convert spi-nor and v3d GPU bindings to DT schema
- Tree wide schema fixes for if/then schemas, array size constraints,
and undocumented compatible strings in examples
- Handle 'no-map' correctly for already reserved memblock regions
* tag 'devicetree-for-5.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/robh/linux: (35 commits)
driver core: platform: Drop of_device_node_put() wrapper
of: Remove of_dev_{get,put}()
dt-bindings: usb: Change descibe to describe in usbmisc-imx.txt
dt-bindings: can: rcar_canfd: Group tuples in pin control properties
dt-bindings: power: renesas,apmu: Group tuples in cpus properties
dt-bindings: mtd: spi-nor: Convert to DT schema format
dt-bindings: Use portable sort for version cmp
dt-bindings: ethernet-controller: fix fixed-link specification
dt-bindings: irqchip: Add node name to PRUSS INTC
dt-bindings: interconnect: Fix the expected number of cells
dt-bindings: Fix errors in 'if' schemas
dt-bindings: iommu: renesas,ipmmu-vmsa: Make 'power-domains' conditionally required
dt-bindings: Fix undocumented compatible strings in examples
kbuild: Add support to build overlays (%.dtbo)
scripts: dtc: Remove the unused fdtdump.c file
scripts: dtc: Build fdtoverlay tool
scripts/dtc: Update to upstream version v1.6.0-51-g183df9e9c2b9
scripts: dtc: Fetch fdtoverlay.c from external DTC project
dt-bindings: thermal: sun8i: Fix misplaced schema keyword in compatible strings
dt-bindings: iio: dac: Fix AD5686 references
...
Pull x86 platform driver updates from Hans de Goede:
"Highlights:
- Microsoft Surface devices System Aggregator Module support
- SW_TABLET_MODE reporting improvements
- thinkpad_acpi keyboard language setting support
- platform / DPTF profile settings support:
- Base / userspace API parts merged from Rafael's acpi-platform
branch
- thinkpad_acpi and ideapad-laptop support through pdx86
- Remove support for some obsolete Intel MID platforms through
merging of the shared intel-mid-removal branch
- Big cleanup of the ideapad-laptop driver
- Misc other fixes / new hw support / quirks"
* tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v5.12-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pdx86/platform-drivers-x86: (99 commits)
platform/x86: intel_scu_ipc: Increase virtual timeout from 3 to 5 seconds
platform/surface: aggregator: Fix access of unaligned value
tools/power/x86/intel-speed-select: Update version to 1.8
tools/power/x86/intel-speed-select: Add new command to get/set TRL
tools/power/x86/intel-speed-select: Add new command turbo-mode
Platform: OLPC: Constify static struct regulator_ops
platform/surface: Add Surface Hot-Plug driver
platform/x86: intel_scu_wdt: Drop mistakenly added const
platform/x86: Kconfig: add missing selects for ideapad-laptop
platform/x86: acer-wmi: Don't use ACPI_EXCEPTION()
platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: Replace ifdef CONFIG_ACPI_PLATFORM_PROFILE with depends on
platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: Fix 'warning: no previous prototype for' warnings
platform/x86: msi-wmi: Fix variable 'status' set but not used compiler warning
platform/surface: surface3-wmi: Fix variable 'status' set but not used compiler warning
platform/x86: Move all dell drivers to their own subdirectory
Documentation/ABI: sysfs-platform-ideapad-laptop: conservation_mode attribute
Documentation/ABI: sysfs-platform-ideapad-laptop: update device attribute paths
platform/x86: ideapad-laptop: add "always on USB charging" control support
platform/x86: ideapad-laptop: add keyboard backlight control support
platform/x86: ideapad-laptop: send notification about touchpad state change to sysfs
...
Pull Kbuild fixes from Masahiro Yamada:
- Fix CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS build for ppc64
- Use pkg-config for scripts/sign-file.c CFLAGS
* tag 'kbuild-fixes-v5.11-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
scripts: set proper OpenSSL include dir also for sign-file
sparc: remove wrong comment from arch/sparc/include/asm/Kbuild
kbuild: fix CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS build for ppc64
The kernel test robot reported the following issue:
CC [M] drivers/soc/litex/litex_soc_ctrl.o
sh4-linux-objcopy: Unable to change endianness of input file(s)
sh4-linux-ld: cannot find drivers/soc/litex/.tmp_gl_litex_soc_ctrl.o: No such file or directory
sh4-linux-objcopy: 'drivers/soc/litex/.tmp_mx_litex_soc_ctrl.o': No such file
The problem is that the format of input file is elf32-shbig-linux, but
sh4-linux-objcopy wants to output a file which format is elf32-sh-linux:
$ sh4-linux-objdump -d drivers/soc/litex/litex_soc_ctrl.o | grep format
drivers/soc/litex/litex_soc_ctrl.o: file format elf32-shbig-linux
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210210150435.2171567-1-rong.a.chen@intel.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/202101261118.GbbYSlHu-lkp@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Rong Chen <rong.a.chen@intel.com>
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.osdn.me>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Stephen Rothwell reported a build error on ppc64 when
CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS is enabled.
Jessica Yu pointed out the cause of the error with the reference to the
ppc64 ELF ABI:
"Symbol names with a dot (.) prefix are reserved for holding entry
point addresses. The value of a symbol named ".FN", if it exists,
is the entry point of the function "FN".
As it turned out, CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS has never worked for ppc64,
but this issue has been unnoticed until recently because this option
depends on !UNUSED_SYMBOLS hence is disabled by all{mod,yes}config.
(Then, it was uncovered by another patch removing UNUSED_SYMBOLS.)
Removing the dot prefix in scripts/gen_autoksyms.sh fixes the issue.
Please note it must be done before 'sort -u' because modules have
both ._mcount and _mcount undefined when CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER=y.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210209210843.3af66662@canb.auug.org.au/
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
ARM randconfig builds with lld sometimes show a build failure
from kallsyms:
Inconsistent kallsyms data
Try make KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS=1 as a workaround
The problem is the veneers/thunks getting added by the linker extend
the symbol table, which in turn leads to more veneers being needed,
so it may take a few extra iterations to converge.
This bug has been fixed multiple times before, but comes back every time
a new symbol name is used. lld uses a different set of identifiers from
ld.bfd, so the additional ones need to be added as well.
I looked through the sources and found that arm64 and mips define similar
prefixes, so I'm adding those as well, aside from the ones I observed. I'm
not sure about powerpc64, which seems to already be handled through a
section match, but if it comes back, the "__long_branch_" and "__plt_"
prefixes would have to get added as well.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
For the same reason as commit 51839e29cb ("scripts: switch explicitly
to Python 3"), switch some more scripts, which I tested and confirmed
working on Python 3.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
The kernel build system as a whole is dropping support for Python 2, so we
should do the same. The effects are rather small, especially considering
that much of the deleted code was not doing anything under any version of
Python anyway.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Python retired in 2020, and some distributions do not provide the
'python' command any more.
As in commit 51839e29cb ("scripts: switch explicitly to Python 3"),
we need to use more specific 'python3' to invoke scripts even if they
are written in a way compatible with both Python 2 and 3.
This commit removes the variable 'PYTHON', and switches the existing
users to 'PYTHON3'.
BTW, PEP 394 (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/) is a helpful
material.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
This reverts commit 327953e9af.
You cannot use 'boolean' since commit b92d804a51 ("kconfig: drop
'boolean' keyword").
This check is no longer needed.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Otherwise build fails if the headers are not in the default location. While at
it also ask pkg-config for the libs, with fallback to the existing value.
Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eb@emlix.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.6.x
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Commit c0f975af17 ("kconfig: Support building mconf with vendor
sysroot ncurses") introduces a bug when HOSTCC contains parameters:
the whole command line is treated as the program name (with spaces
in it). Therefore, we have to remove the quotes.
Fixes: c0f975af17 ("kconfig: Support building mconf with vendor sysroot ncurses")
Signed-off-by: Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult <info@metux.net>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
With commit 1e860048c5 ("gcc-plugins: simplify GCC plugin-dev
capability test") applied, this hunk can be way simplified because
now scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig only checks plugin-version.h
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Some distributions are about to switch to Python 3 support only.
This means that /usr/bin/python, which is Python 2, is not available
anymore. Hence, switch scripts to use Python 3 explicitly.
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Kernel-doc currently expects that the kernel-doc markup to come
just before the function/enum/struct/union/typedef prototype.
Yet, if it find things like:
/**
* refcount_add - add a value to a refcount
* @i: the value to add to the refcount
* @r: the refcount
*/
static inline void __refcount_add(int i, refcount_t *r, int *oldp);
static inline void refcount_add(int i, refcount_t *r);
Kernel-doc will do the wrong thing:
foobar.h:6: warning: Function parameter or member 'oldp' not described in '__refcount_add'
.. c:function:: void __refcount_add (int i, refcount_t *r, int *oldp)
add a value to a refcount
**Parameters**
``int i``
the value to add to the refcount
``refcount_t *r``
the refcount
``int *oldp``
*undescribed*
Basically, it will document "__refcount_add" with the kernel-doc
markup for refcount_add.
If both functions have the same arguments, this won't even
produce any warning!
Add a logic to check if the kernel-doc identifier matches the actual
name of the C function or data structure that will be documented.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/081546f141a496d6cabb99a4adc140444c705e93.1610610937.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Pull Kbuild fixes from Masahiro Yamada:
- Search for <ncurses.h> in the default header path of HOSTCC
- Tweak the option order to be kind to old BSD awk
- Remove 'kvmconfig' and 'xenconfig' shorthands
- Fix documentation
* tag 'kbuild-fixes-v5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
Documentation: kbuild: Fix section reference
kconfig: remove 'kvmconfig' and 'xenconfig' shorthands
lib/raid6: Let $(UNROLL) rules work with macOS userland
kconfig: Support building mconf with vendor sysroot ncurses
kconfig: config script: add a little user help
MAINTAINERS: adjust GCC PLUGINS after gcc-plugin.sh removal
Fedora Rawhide has started including gcc 11,and the g++ compiler
throws a wobbly when it hits scripts/gcc-plugins:
HOSTCXX scripts/gcc-plugins/latent_entropy_plugin.so
In file included from /usr/include/c++/11/type_traits:35,
from /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/11/plugin/include/system.h:244,
from /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/11/plugin/include/gcc-plugin.h:28,
from scripts/gcc-plugins/gcc-common.h:7,
from scripts/gcc-plugins/latent_entropy_plugin.c:78:
/usr/include/c++/11/bits/c++0x_warning.h:32:2: error: #error This file requires compiler and library support for the ISO
C++ 2011 standard. This support must be enabled with the -std=c++11 or -std=gnu++11 compiler options.
32 | #error This file requires compiler and library support \
In fact, it works just fine with c++11, which has been in gcc since 4.8,
and we now require 4.9 as a minimum.
Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/82487.1609006918@turing-police
The Surface Aggregator EC provides varying functionality, depending on
the Surface device. To manage this functionality, we use dedicated
client devices for each subsystem or virtual device of the EC. While
some of these clients are described as standard devices in ACPI and the
corresponding client drivers can be implemented as platform drivers in
the kernel (making use of the controller API already present), many
devices, especially on newer Surface models, cannot be found there.
To simplify management of these devices, we introduce a new bus and
client device type for the Surface Aggregator subsystem. The new device
type takes care of managing the controller reference, essentially
guaranteeing its validity for as long as the client device exists, thus
alleviating the need to manually establish device links for that purpose
in the client driver (as has to be done with the platform devices).
Signed-off-by: Maximilian Luz <luzmaximilian@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201221183959.1186143-7-luzmaximilian@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Changes the final fallback path in the ncurses locator for mconf
to support host compilers with a non-default sysroot.
This is similar to the hardcoded search for ncurses under
'/usr/include', but can support compilers that keep their default
header and library directories elsewhere.
For nconfig, do nothing because the only vendor compiler I'm aware
of with this layout (Apple Clang) ships an ncurses version that's too
old for nconfig anyway.
Signed-off-by: John Millikin <john@john-millikin.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Commit 436e980e2e ("kbuild: don't hardcode depmod path") stopped
hard-coding the path of depmod, but in the process caused trouble for
distributions that had that /sbin location, but didn't have it in the
PATH (generally because /sbin is limited to the super-user path).
Work around it for now by just adding /sbin to the end of PATH in the
depmod.sh script.
Reported-and-tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull coccinelle updates from Julia Lawall.
* 'for-5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlawall/linux:
scripts: coccicheck: Correct usage of make coccicheck
coccinelle: update expiring email addresses
coccinnelle: Remove ptr_ret script
kbuild: do not use scripts/ld-version.sh for checking spatch version
remove boolinit.cocci
The command "make coccicheck C=1 CHECK=scripts/coccicheck" results in the
error:
./scripts/coccicheck: line 65: -1: shift count out of range
This happens because every time the C variable is specified,
the shell arguments need to be "shifted" in order to take only
the last argument, which is the C file to test. These shell arguments
mostly comprise flags that have been set in the Makefile. However,
when coccicheck is specified in the make command as a rule, the
number of shell arguments is zero, thus passing the invalid value -1
to the shift command, resulting in an error.
Modify coccicheck to print correct usage of make coccicheck so as to
avoid the error.
Signed-off-by: Sumera Priyadarsini <sylphrenadin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@inria.fr>
Pull Kconfig updates from Masahiro Yamada:
- Support only Qt5 for qconf
- Validate signal/slot connection at compile time of qconf
- Sanitize header includes
* tag 'kconfig-v5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
kconfig: doc: fix $(fileno) to $(filename)
kconfig: fix return value of do_error_if()
kconfig: clean up header inclusion
kconfig: qconf: show Qt version in the About dialog
kconfig: make lkc.h self-sufficient #include-wise
kconfig: qconf: convert to Qt5 new signal/slot connection syntax
kconfig: qconf: use a variable to pass packages to pkg-config
kconfig: qconf: drop Qt4 support
Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:
- Use /usr/bin/env for shebang lines in scripts
- Remove useless -Wnested-externs warning flag
- Update documents
- Refactor log handling in modpost
- Stop building modules without MODULE_LICENSE() tag
- Make the insane combination of 'static' and EXPORT_SYMBOL an error
- Improve genksyms to handle _Static_assert()
* tag 'kbuild-v5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
Documentation/kbuild: Document platform dependency practises
Documentation/kbuild: Document COMPILE_TEST dependencies
genksyms: Ignore module scoped _Static_assert()
modpost: turn static exports into error
modpost: turn section mismatches to error from fatal()
modpost: change license incompatibility to error() from fatal()
modpost: turn missing MODULE_LICENSE() into error
modpost: refactor error handling and clarify error/fatal difference
modpost: rename merror() to error()
kbuild: don't hardcode depmod path
kbuild: doc: document subdir-y syntax
kbuild: doc: clarify the difference between extra-y and always-y
kbuild: doc: split if_changed explanation to a separate section
kbuild: doc: merge 'Special Rules' and 'Custom kbuild commands' sections
kbuild: doc: fix 'List directories to visit when descending' section
kbuild: doc: replace arch/$(ARCH)/ with arch/$(SRCARCH)/
kbuild: doc: update the description about kbuild Makefiles
Makefile.extrawarn: remove -Wnested-externs warning
tweewide: Fix most Shebang lines
$(error-if,...) is expanded to an empty string. Currently, it relies on
eval_clause() returning xstrdup("") when all attempts for expansion fail,
but the correct implementation is to make do_error_if() return xstrdup("").
Fixes: 1d6272e6fe ("kconfig: add 'info', 'warning-if', and 'error-if' built-in functions")
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
The C11 _Static_assert() keyword may be used at module scope, and we
need to teach genksyms about it to not abort with an error. We currently
have a growing number of static_assert() (but also direct usage of
_Static_assert()) users at module scope:
git grep -E '^_Static_assert\(|^static_assert\(' | grep -v '^tools' | wc -l
135
More recently, when enabling CONFIG_MODVERSIONS with CONFIG_KCSAN, we
observe a number of warnings:
WARNING: modpost: EXPORT symbol "<..all kcsan symbols..>" [vmlinux] [...]
When running a preprocessed source through 'genksyms -w' a number of
syntax errors point at usage of static_assert()s. In the case of
kernel/kcsan/encoding.h, new static_assert()s had been introduced which
used expressions that appear to cause genksyms to not even be able to
recover from the syntax error gracefully (as it appears was the case
previously).
Therefore, make genksyms ignore all _Static_assert() and the contained
expression. With the fix, usage of _Static_assert() no longer cause
"syntax error" all over the kernel, and the above modpost warnings for
KCSAN are gone, too.
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Acked-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Using EXPORT_SYMBOL*() on static functions is fundamentally wrong.
Modpost currently reports that as a warning, but clearly this is not a
pattern we should allow, and all in-tree occurences should have been
fixed by now. So, promote the warn() message to error() to make sure
this never happens again.
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
There is code that reports static EXPORT_SYMBOL a few lines below.
It is not a good idea to bail out here.
I renamed sec_mismatch_fatal to sec_mismatch_warn_only (with logical
inversion) to match to CONFIG_SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Change fatal() to error() to continue running to report more possible
issues.
There is no difference in the fact that modpost will fail anyway.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
We have 3 log functions. fatal() is special because it lets modpost bail
out immediately. The difference between warn() and error() is the only
prefix parts ("WARNING:" vs "ERROR:").
In my understanding, the expected handling of error() is to propagate
the return code of the function to the exit code of modpost, as
check_exports() etc. already does. This is a good manner in general
because we should display as many error messages as possible in a
single run of modpost.
What is annoying about fatal() is that it kills modpost at the first
error. People would need to run Kbuild again and again until they fix
all errors.
But, unfortunately, people tend to do:
"This case should not be allowed. Let's replace warn() with fatal()."
One of the reasons is probably it is tedious to manually hoist the error
code to the main() function.
This commit refactors error() so any single call for it automatically
makes modpost return the error code.
I also added comments in modpost.h for warn(), error(), and fatal().
Please use fatal() only when you have a strong reason to do so.
For example:
- Memory shortage (i.e. malloc() etc. has failed)
- The ELF file is broken, and there is no point to continue parsing
- Something really odd has happened
For general coding errors, please use error().
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>
The log function names, warn(), merror(), fatal() are inconsistent.
Commit 2a11665945 ("kbuild: distinguish between errors and warnings
in modpost") intentionally chose merror() to avoid the conflict with
the library function error(). See man page of error(3).
But, we are already causing the conflict with warn() because it is also
a library function. See man page of warn(3). err() would be a problem
for the same reason.
The common technique to work around name conflicts is to use macros.
For example:
/* in a header */
#define error(fmt, ...) __error(fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__)
#define warn(fmt, ...) __warn(fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__)
/* function definition */
void __error(const char *fmt, ...)
{
<our implementation>
}
void __warn(const char *fmt, ...)
{
<our implementation>
}
In this way, we can implement our own warn() and error(), still we can
include <error.h> and <err.h> with no problem.
And, commit 93c95e526a ("modpost: rework and consolidate logging
interface") already did that.
Since the log functions are all macros, we can use error() without
causing "conflicting types" errors.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Pull gcc-plugins updates from Kees Cook:
- Clean up gcc plugin builds now that GCC must be 4.9+ (Masahiro
Yamada)
- Update MAINTAINERS (Kees Cook)
* tag 'gcc-plugins-v5.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
MAINTAINERS: Drop inactive gcc-plugins maintainer
gcc-plugins: simplify GCC plugin-dev capability test
gcc-plugins: remove code for GCC versions older than 4.9
