August 2024 ClangBuiltLinux Work
Occasionally, I will forget to link something from the mailing list in this post. To see my full mailing list activity (patches, reviews, and reports), you can view it on lore.kernel.org. Linux kernel patches Miscellaneous fixes and improvements: These are fixes and improvements that don’t fit into a particular category but are important to ClangBuiltLinux. hexagon: Disable constant extender optimization for LLVM prior to 19.1.0 (v1) ACPI: platform-profile: Fix CFI violation when accessing sysfs files (v1) Warning fixes: These are patches to fix various warnings that appear with LLVM. I used to go into detail about the different warnings and what they mean, but the important takeaway for this section is that the kernel should build warning free, as all developers should be using CONFIG_WERROR, which will turn these all into failures. Maybe these should be in the build failures section… ...