On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 04:01:02PM -0500, Jun'ichi Nomura wrote: > Hello, > > In 2.6.16-rc6-mm1, I've seen tons of compiler warnings on ia64: > > include2/asm/msi.h: In function `ia64_msi_init': > include2/asm/msi.h:23: warning: implicit declaration of function `msi_register' > In file included from include2/asm/machvec.h:408, > from include2/asm/io.h:70, > from include2/asm/smp.h:20, > from /build/rc6/source/include/linux/smp.h:22, > > The problem is that msi_register() is used in ia64_msi_init() > without declaration. > Since ia64_msi_init() is a part of machine vector, most of files > hit this warning and may hide other important messages. >... To avoid any wrong impression: This kind of warnings isn't harmless. gcc tries to guess the prototype of the function, and if gcc guessed wrong this can cause nasty and hard to debug runtime errors. > Thanks, >... cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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