kbuild: Drop -Wdeclaration-after-statement

With the advent on scope-based resource management it comes really
tedious to abide by the contraints of -Wdeclaration-after-statement.

It will still be recommeneded to place declarations at the start of a
scope where possible, but it will no longer be enforced.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHk-%3Dwi-RyoUhbChiVaJZoZXheAwnJ7OO%3DGxe85BkPAd93TwDA%40mail.gmail.com

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index e51e4d9..e73b889 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -447,8 +447,7 @@ HOSTRUSTC = rustc
 HOSTPKG_CONFIG = pkg-config
 
 KBUILD_USERHOSTCFLAGS := -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes \
-                        -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -std=gnu11 \
-                        -Wdeclaration-after-statement
+                        -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -std=gnu11
 KBUILD_USERCFLAGS  := $(KBUILD_USERHOSTCFLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS)
 KBUILD_USERLDFLAGS := $(USERLDFLAGS)
 
@@ -1012,9 +1011,6 @@ endif
 # arch Makefile may override CC so keep this after arch Makefile is included
 NOSTDINC_FLAGS += -nostdinc
 
-# warn about C99 declaration after statement
-KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wdeclaration-after-statement
-
 # Variable Length Arrays (VLAs) should not be used anywhere in the kernel
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wvla
 

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso32/Makefile b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso32/Makefile
index d014162..2f73e5b 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso32/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso32/Makefile
@@ -65,11 +65,9 @@ VDSO_CFLAGS += -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs \
                -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common \
                -Werror-implicit-function-declaration \
                -Wno-format-security \
-               -Wdeclaration-after-statement \
                -std=gnu11
 VDSO_CFLAGS  += -O2
 # Some useful compiler-dependent flags from top-level Makefile
-VDSO_CFLAGS += $(call cc32-option,-Wdeclaration-after-statement,)
 VDSO_CFLAGS += $(call cc32-option,-Wno-pointer-sign)
 VDSO_CFLAGS += -fno-strict-overflow
 VDSO_CFLAGS += $(call cc32-option,-Werror=strict-prototypes)