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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, sedat.dilek@credativ.de,
	Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: Mark ACPI table declaration as used
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 08:01:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190110070110.GA29175@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKwvOd=+Vqm2FdZ-nb7j2eVTHuP2dWBmiYyZ0WLMEERK9NqNKA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 04:19:30PM -0800, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> Digging up an old thread to point out I was wrong:
> 
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 1:08 PM Nick Desaulniers
> <ndesaulniers@google.com> wrote:
> > > This is not a million-little-commits problem; more like 2 drivers in
> > > the whole tree have this problem.
> > >
> > > Note that this change that Nathan has DOES NOT need to applied to
> > > every driver that uses MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE.  Only when the struct has
> > > no other references other than JUST being passed to
> > > MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() is this a problem.  For an allyesconfig, I only
> > > see 2 instances of this case in the whole tree:
> > >
> > > https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/169 <- this patch is addressing
> > > https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/178 <- waiting on the
> > > results of this patch
> > >
> > > If you're ok with this change to two drivers, then:
> > > Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
> 
> I just landed a fix for this in Clang
> (https://reviews.llvm.org/rL350776) which will ship soon in Clang 8.
> Sedat helped test this patch and reported that it removed 41
> false-negative warnings
> https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/232#issuecomment-440006399

Great, thanks for letting me know.  Can I revert this patch?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-10  7:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-26 23:20 Nathan Chancellor
2018-09-27  5:16 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-27 20:05   ` Nick Desaulniers
2018-09-27 20:08     ` Nick Desaulniers
2019-01-10  0:19       ` Nick Desaulniers
2019-01-10  7:01         ` Greg KH [this message]
2019-01-10 22:52           ` Nick Desaulniers

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