[BUG] Build failure and alleged fix for next-20240523

[Thierry Reding]

On Thu May 30, 2024 at 6:55 PM CEST, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 12:57:58PM -0700, Abhinav Kumar wrote:
> > Hello
> > 
> > On 5/24/2024 12:55 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > Hello!
> > > 
> > > I get the following allmodconfig build error on x86 in next-20240523:
> > > 
> > > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > >    File "drivers/gpu/drm/msm/registers/gen_header.py", line 970, in <module>
> > >      main()
> > >    File "drivers/gpu/drm/msm/registers/gen_header.py", line 951, in main
> > >      parser.add_argument('--validate', action=argparse.BooleanOptionalAction)
> > > AttributeError: module 'argparse' has no attribute 'BooleanOptionalAction'
> > > 
> > > The following patch allows the build to complete successfully:
> > > 
> > > https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/dri-devel/patch/20240508091751.336654-1-jonathanh@nvidia.com/#25842751
> > > 
> > > As to whether this is a proper fix, I must defer to the DRM folks on CC.
> > 
> > Thanks for the report.
> > 
> > I have raised a merge request for
> > https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/593057/ to make it available for the
> > next fixes release for msm.
>
> Thank you!
>
> This still is not in -next, so I am putting it into -rcu just to silence
> the diagnostic.  Or should I push this to mainline via -rcu?

I pushed this to drm-misc-fixes earlier today, so should show up in
linux-next soon and hopefully in v6.10-rc2.

Thierry
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