Dne 27.12.2011 14:57, Michal Hocko napsal(a): > Anyway, I am wondering why unused-but-set-variable is disabled while > unused-variable is enabled. unused-but-set-variable was disabled, because it was a new warning in gcc 4.6 and produced too much noise relatively to its severity. A make W=1 build of x86_64_defconfig gives: $ grep -c 'Wunused-but-set-variable' log 77 $ grep -c 'Wunused-variable' log 0 More exotic configuration will probably result in a couple of unused variable warnings, but that IMO no reason to disable them globally. > Shouldn't we just disable it as well rather > than workaround this in the code? The warning is just pure noise in this > case. If it's noise in a particular case, there is always the option to add CFLAGS_memcontrol.o := $(call cc-disable-warning, unused-variable) to the respective Makefile. Michal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html