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Masahiro Yamada
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A longstanding issue with genksyms is that it has hidden syntax errors.
When a syntax error occurs, yyerror() is called. However,
error_with_pos() is a no-op unless the -w option is provided.
You can observe syntax errors by manually passing the -w option.
For example, with CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y on v6.13-rc1:
$ make -s KCFLAGS=-D__GENKSYMS__ kernel/module/main.i
$ cat kernel/module/main.i | scripts/genksyms/genksyms -w
[ snip ]
kernel/module/main.c:97: syntax error
The syntax error occurs in the following code in kernel/module/main.c:
static void __mod_update_bounds(enum mod_mem_type type __maybe_unused, void *base,
unsigned int size, struct mod_tree_root *tree)
{
[ snip ]
}
The issue arises from __maybe_unused, which is defined as
__attribute__((__unused__)).
This commit allows direct_abstract_declarator to be followed with
attributes.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Schier <n.schier@avm.de>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.