Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the efi tree

From: Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2023 18:08:05 +1000

Hi Ard,

On Tue, 22 Aug 2023 09:32:31 +0200 Ard Biesheuvel <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
> Hello Stephen,
> 
> On Tue, 22 Aug 2023 at 08:49, Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > After merging the efi tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64 allmodconfig)
> > failed like this:
> >
> > In file included from drivers/platform/x86/uv_sysfs.c:14:
> > arch/x86/include/asm/uv/bios.h:118:22: error: expected ')' before '*' token
> >   118 |         u64 (__efiapi *function)(enum uv_bios_cmd, ...);
> >       |                      ^~
> >       |                      )
> >
> > Caused by commit
> >
> >   73632c8c865f ("efi/runtime-wrappers: Remove duplicated macro for service returning void")
> >  
> 
> Thanks for the report.
> 
> I cannot reproduce this with Debian's GCC 12.2.0 when building the
> efi/next tree either in isolation, or merged into yesterday's next.
> 
> Could you please share the compiler version and the .config you used? Thanks.

$ x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc --version
x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc (Debian 12.3.0-4) 12.3.0
(this is Debian's cross compiler that is ppcle64 hosted)

and (see above) it is a x86_64 allmodconfig build.

Maybe there is some interaction with something else in today's
linux-next (just released).
-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell