Whenever a warning is disabled, it is helpful for future travelers to understand why the warning is disabled and why it is acceptable to do so. Add a comment for -Wno-gnu so that people understand why it is disabled. Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Makefile | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 3900f5824721..07b76274396e 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -777,6 +777,7 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(stackp-flags-y) ifdef CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += -Qunused-arguments +# The kernel builds with '-std=gnu89' so use of GNU extensions is acceptable. KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-gnu # CLANG uses a _MergedGlobals as optimization, but this breaks modpost, as the # source of a reference will be _MergedGlobals and not on of the whitelisted names. -- 2.33.0.rc2
