kbuild: move -Wunused-const-variable to W=1 warning level
authorArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Tue, 10 May 2016 21:30:01 +0000 (23:30 +0200)
committerJaechul Lee <jcsing.lee@samsung.com>
Tue, 14 Feb 2017 04:26:23 +0000 (13:26 +0900)
[ Upstream commit c9c6837d39311b0cc14cdbe7c18e815ab44aefb1 ]

gcc-6 started warning by default about variables that are not
used anywhere and that are marked 'const', generating many
false positives in an allmodconfig build, e.g.:

arch/arm/mach-davinci/board-da830-evm.c:282:20: warning: 'da830_evm_emif25_pins' defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=]
arch/arm/plat-omap/dmtimer.c:958:34: warning: 'omap_timer_match' defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=]
drivers/bluetooth/hci_bcm.c:625:39: warning: 'acpi_bcm_default_gpios' defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=]
drivers/char/hw_random/omap-rng.c:92:18: warning: 'reg_map_omap4' defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=]
drivers/devfreq/exynos/exynos5_bus.c:381:32: warning: 'exynos5_busfreq_int_pm' defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=]
drivers/dma/mv_xor.c:1139:34: warning: 'mv_xor_dt_ids' defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=]

This is similar to the existing -Wunused-but-set-variable warning
that was added in an earlier release and that we disable by default
now and only enable when W=1 is set, so it makes sense to do
the same here. Once we have eliminated the majority of the
warnings for both, we can put them back into the default list.

We probably want this in backport kernels as well, to allow building
them with gcc-6 without introducing extra warnings.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Acked-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Makefile
scripts/Makefile.extrawarn

index 0e32e2af8911a581b1405187a3237a49e317e1df..d8100586be52534047508c8d6862047a265b05ff 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -692,9 +692,10 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -mno-global-merge,)
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -fcatch-undefined-behavior)
 else
 
-# This warning generated too much noise in a regular build.
-# Use make W=1 to enable this warning (see scripts/Makefile.build)
+# These warnings generated too much noise in a regular build.
+# Use make W=1 to enable them (see scripts/Makefile.build)
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, unused-but-set-variable)
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, unused-const-variable)
 endif
 
 ifdef CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER
index f734033af219d267fd67428432feb9bacee0baae..5c17a5c1f3063be44e0945d041c06ed863ef8248 100644 (file)
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ warning-1 += $(call cc-option, -Wmissing-prototypes)
 warning-1 += -Wold-style-definition
 warning-1 += $(call cc-option, -Wmissing-include-dirs)
 warning-1 += $(call cc-option, -Wunused-but-set-variable)
+warning-1 += $(call cc-option, -Wunused-const-variable)
 warning-1 += $(call cc-disable-warning, missing-field-initializers)
 
 warning-2 := -Waggregate-return