svn commit: r314862 - head/sys/modules/qlxgbe
Gleb Smirnoff
glebius at FreeBSD.org
Wed Mar 8 21:55:15 UTC 2017
On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 01:00:30AM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote:
A> On 08/03/2017 00:17, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
A> > On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 03:43:49PM +0000, Andriy Gapon wrote:
A> > A> Author: avg
A> > A> Date: Tue Mar 7 15:43:49 2017
A> > A> New Revision: 314862
A> > A> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/314862
A> > A>
A> > A> Log:
A> > A> qlxgbe: add GCC_MS_EXTENSIONS to CFLAGS to make old base GCC happy
A> > A>
A> > A> The module uses unnamed structure and union fields and base GCC in
A> > A> stable/10 doesn't like it.
A> > A> I think that that is a C11 feature, so it is courteous of more modern
A> > A> compilers to not complain about it when compiling in C99 mode.
A> >
A> > There are a lot of code in kernel, that uses anonymous structs and unions.
A> > This feature is enabled globally. Why does this module need special treatment?
A>
A> That's a good question and I don't have a good answer to it.
A> All I can say is that a GCC build of GENERIC and modules failed in that fashion
A> only for this module (in stable/10).
A> Maybe I described the problem incorrectly. Then, a proper explanation is welcome.
In head this is fixed properly:
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=278913
Can you please move your fix to stable/10 and revert it in head?
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