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From:   Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat, 28 May 2022 00:40:38 +0100
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Subject: Re: mainline build failure due to f1e4c916f97f ("drm/edid: add EDID
 block count and size helpers")
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>,
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        Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>,
        Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>,
        Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>,
        David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>,
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On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 7:56 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 2:07 AM Sudip Mukherjee
> <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >         declared with attribute error: BUILD_BUG_ON failed: sizeof(*edid) != EDID_LENGTH
> >
> > And, reverting it on top of mainline branch has fixed the build failure.
>
> Hmm. That BUILD_BUG_ON() looks entirely correct, and if that sizeof()
> doesn't work, then the code doesn't work.

<snip>

>
> Very strange. It would be interesting to know where that sizeof goes
> wrong, but it would seem to be something very peculiar to your build
> environment (either that config, or your compiler).

I just tested with various values, sizeof(*edid) is 144 bytes at that place.

My last good build was with fdaf9a5840ac ("Merge tag 'folio-5.19' of
git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/pagecache")
And my setup has not changed in anyway since then. Also verified the
build failure on my laptop.


-- 
Regards
Sudip