Issue with recent CachyOS kernel?

[markhagemann]

This is unlikely to be specific to universal-pidff but wondering if anyone has encountered similar before?

➜ sudo dkms install /usr/src/universal-pidff

Sign command: /usr/lib/modules/6.12.1-2-cachyos/build/scripts/sign-file
Signing key: /var/lib/dkms/mok.key
Public certificate (MOK): /var/lib/dkms/mok.pub
Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/universal-pidff/0.0.10/source -> /usr/src/universal-pidff-0.0.10

Cleaning build area... done.
Building module(s)...(bad exit status: 2)
Failed command:
make -j16 KERNELRELEASE=6.12.1-2-cachyos KVERSION=6.12.1-2-cachyos LLVM=1
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 6.12.1-2-cachyos (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/universal-pidff/0.0.10/build/make.log for more information.

/var/lib/dkms/universal-pidff/0.0.10/build/make.log

DKMS make.log for universal-pidff-0.0.10 for kernel 6.12.1-2-cachyos (x86_64)
Mon 25 Nov 2024 14:07:17 AEST
make -C /lib/modules/6.12.1-2-cachyos/build M=$PWD
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/lib/modules/6.12.1-2-cachyos/build'
  CC [M]  /var/lib/dkms/universal-pidff/0.0.10/build/hid-pidff-wrapper.o
  CC [M]  /var/lib/dkms/universal-pidff/0.0.10/build/hid-pidff.o
/var/lib/dkms/universal-pidff/0.0.10/build/hid-pidff-wrapper.c:166:18: error: incompatible function pointer types initializing 'const __u8 *(*)(struct hid_device *, __u8 *, unsigned int *)' (aka 'const unsigned char *(*)(struct hid_device *, unsigned char *, unsigned int *)') with an expression of type 'u8 *(struct hid_device *, __u8 *, unsigned int *)' (aka 'unsigned char *(struct hid_device *, unsigned char *, unsigned int *)') [-Wincompatible-function-pointer-types]
  166 |         .report_fixup = universal_pidff_report_fixup
      |                         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1 error generated.
make[3]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:229: /var/lib/dkms/universal-pidff/0.0.10/build/hid-pidff-wrapper.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[2]: *** [/usr/lib/modules/6.12.1-2-cachyos/build/Makefile:1946: /var/lib/dkms/universal-pidff/0.0.10/build] Error 2
make[1]: *** [Makefile:224: __sub-make] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/lib/modules/6.12.1-2-cachyos/build'
make: *** [Makefile:5: default] Error 2

[markhagemann]

Can see the PR to fix it now: #41