On Wed, Aug 9, 2023, at 18:54, Daniel Sneddon wrote:
> HI Arnd,
>
> On 8/9/23 06:05, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>>
>> The declaration got placed in the .c file of the caller, but that
>> causes a warning for the definition:
>>
>> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c:682:6: error: no previous prototype for 'gds_ucode_mitigated' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
>
> When I build with gcc 9.4 and the x86_64_defconfig I don't see this warning even
> without this patch. I'm curious why you're seeing it and I'm not. Any ideas?
The warning is currently disabled by default, unless you build with
'make W=1'. I'm in the process of getting my last patches out to
change this so the warning is enabled by default though, so I was
phrasing this based on the future behavior. Sorry if this was confusing.
Arnd
