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From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date:   Mon, 18 Jun 2018 15:05:57 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Resolve -Wattribute-alias warnings from SYSCALL_DEFINEx()
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On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 2:53 AM, Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com> wrote:
> This series introduces infrastructure allowing compiler diagnostics to
> be disabled or their severity modified for specific pieces of code, with
> suitable abstractions to prevent that code from becoming tied to a
> specific compiler.
>
> This infrastructure is then used to disable the -Wattribute-alias
> warning around syscall definitions, which rely on type mismatches to
> sanitize arguments.
>
> Finally PowerPC-specific #pragma's are removed now that the generic code
> is handling this.
>
> The series takes Arnd's RFC patches & addresses the review comments they
> received. The most notable effect of this series to to avoid warnings &
> build failures caused by -Wattribute-alias when compiling the kernel
> with GCC 8.
>
> Applies cleanly atop master as of 9215310cf13b ("Merge
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net").
>

Sorry I dropped the ball on this earlier, and thanks a lot for picking
it up again! From what I can tell, your version addresses all issues
I was aware of, so we should merge that.

      Arnd