Dne 31.7.2014 18:12, Behan Webster napsal(a): > On 07/31/14 01:18, Michal Marek wrote: >> Dne 31.7.2014 06:16, behanw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx napsal(a): >>> @@ -55,6 +45,18 @@ warning-3 += -Wswitch-default >>> warning-3 += $(call cc-option, -Wpacked-bitfield-compat) >>> warning-3 += $(call cc-option, -Wvla) >>> +ifeq ($(COMPILER),clang) >>> +ifndef $(W) >>> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, initializer-overrides) >>> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, unused-value) >>> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, format) >>> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, unknown-warning-option) >>> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, sign-compare) >>> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, format-zero-length) >>> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, uninitialized) >>> +endif >>> +endif >>> + >> Please remove this part, it has no effect. I assume that if it works for >> you, these warning are not as annoying so they do not need to be >> disabled? > Actually they are annoying, that's why they're disabled normally. Most > of them complain about practices which are relatively common in kernel > code. > > clang warns about a lot more things than gcc does. It means that code > which compiles cleanly in gcc often doesn't with clang. This cuts out > the warnings which are unlikely to to be fixed in kernel code anytime > soon, but which are probably worth exposing when W=1 is used. > > This part of the patch explicitly deals with complaints from some in the > kernel community that clang is too noisy with kernel code. > > This part of the patch needs to be somewhere. This seemed the best place. You placed it inside a branch that is only evaluated when W= is given. 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