The common error fount in forward-ported/backported patches is missing headers. One recent example (files and function names are mangled): void foo(){} EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo); gave only warning foo.c:12345678:5: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype [-Wstrict-prototypes] void foo(){} ^ foo.c:12345679:5: warning: data definition has no type or storage class [enabled by default] EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo); foo.c:12345679:5: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'EXORT_SYMBOL' [-Werror=implicit-int] Now it's a fatal error. Tested on x86_64 allyesconfig. Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx> Cc: linux-kbuild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Makefile | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 6e48848..eda0126 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -372,6 +372,8 @@ KBUILD_CPPFLAGS := -D__KERNEL__ KBUILD_CFLAGS := -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs \ -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common \ -Werror-implicit-function-declaration \ + -Werror=implicit-int \ + -Werror=strict-prototypes \ -Wno-format-security \ -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks KBUILD_AFLAGS_KERNEL := -- 1.8.3.2 -- 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