Re: Build regression since v6.6-rc1

"Wysocki, Rafael J" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.ports.ia64,gmane.linux.ports.ia64
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 9/21/2023 1:53 PM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> Hello Frank,
>
> On Thu, 21 Sept 2023 at 10:15, Frank Scheiner <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> since v6.6-rc1 (actually introduced with [1], specific commit on [2])
>> the kernel build for ia64 fails like that:
>>
>> ```
> ...
>> Could one ([5]) or the other ([6]) please be included in v6.6 (or
>> earlier) to "fix" the build problem for ia64?
>>
> Do you mean by "fix" that the proposed fixes are just workarounds and
> not proper fixes? I don't think that is the case - the function in
> question does nothing except apply a quirk for one specific x86
> platform.
>
> ...
>> [5]:
>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAJZ5v0hnNK4O_HyinvTp01YxXR7V4vzpMhf85yW9M2=52-O2Fg@mail.gmail.com/
>>
>> [6]:
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ardb/linux.git/commit/?id=a0334bf78b95532cec54f56b53e8ae1bfe7e1ca1
> Either Arnd, Rafael or myself should send a PR to Linus to merge [6]
> as a fix, as it is already queued up in -next for v6.7.
>
> Or perhaps Linus doesn't mind grabbing it from here:

I have pulled this and I will send a pull request including it tomorrow 
(unless Linus beats me to it and pulls it himself).


>
> ------------8<--------------
>
> The following changes since commit 0bb80ecc33a8fb5a682236443c1e740d5c917d1d:
>
>    Linux 6.6-rc1 (2023-09-10 16:28:41 -0700)
>
> are available in the Git repository at:
>
>    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ardb/linux.git
> tags/fix-ia64-build-for-v6.6
>
> for you to fetch changes up to a0334bf78b95532cec54f56b53e8ae1bfe7e1ca1:
>
>    acpi: Provide ia64 dummy implementation of
> acpi_proc_quirk_mwait_check() (2023-09-11 08:13:17 +0000)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Build fix for Itanium/ia64:
>
> - provide dummy implementation of acpi_proc_quirk_mwait_check() which
>    was moved out of generic code into arch/x86, breaking the ia64 build
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Ard Biesheuvel (1):
>        acpi: Provide ia64 dummy implementation of acpi_proc_quirk_mwait_check()
>
>   arch/ia64/kernel/acpi.c | 4 ++++
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
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