As stated at Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst, to make usage of ccache one must set KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP=''. Setting this together with W=1 will trigger the following warning for every compiled file: date: invalid date ‘+%s’ This comes from kernel-doc script, that produces the following command when KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP is empty: date -d"" +%s That triggers the warning above. Add a space between the flag `-d` and the string argument to fix date command and remove the warning. Signed-off-by: André Almeida <andrealmeid@xxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/kernel-doc | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/kernel-doc b/scripts/kernel-doc index 2791f8195203..8728f9824c65 100755 --- a/scripts/kernel-doc +++ b/scripts/kernel-doc @@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ my @export_file_list; my @build_time; if (defined($ENV{'KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP'}) && - (my $seconds = `date -d"${ENV{'KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP'}}" +%s`) ne '') { + (my $seconds = `date -d "${ENV{'KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP'}}" +%s`) ne '') { @build_time = gmtime($seconds); } else { @build_time = localtime; -- 2.47.0