After getting my local tree rebased onto the kernel 6.8-rc3 the MIPS32 kernel build procedure produced a couple of warnings which I suggest to fix in the framework of this series. A first warning is of the "no previous prototype for `<func>`" type. In particular my arch-specific code has the mips_cm_l2sync_phys_base() method re-defined, but even though the function is global it' prototype isn't declared anywhere. Fix that by adding the method prototype declaration to the mips/include/asm/mips-cm.h header file. A similar solution was provided for the methods: __mips_cm_l2sync_phys_base() mips_cm_phys_base() __mips_cm_phys_base() too (Please see the patches 1/4 and 2/4 notes section for an alternative suggestion of the way to fix the warning). One more case of the denoted warning I spotted in the self-extracting kernel (so called zboot) with the debug printouts enabled. In particular there are several putc() method re-definitions available in: arch/mips/boot/compressed/uart-prom.c arch/mips/boot/compressed/uart-16550.c arch/mips/boot/compressed/uart-alchemy.c All of these files lacked the prototype declaration what caused having the "no previous prototype for ‘putc’" printed on my build with the next configs enabled: CONFIG_SYS_SUPPORTS_ZBOOT=y CONFIG_SYS_SUPPORTS_ZBOOT_UART_PROM=y CONFIG_ZBOOT_LOAD_ADDRESS=0x85100000 CONFIG_DEBUG_ZBOOT=y The second warning is of the "passing argument <x> of ‘<func>’ from incompatible pointer type" type which I discovered in the drivers/tty/mips_ejtag_fdc.c driver. The problem most likely happened due to the commit ce7cbd9a6c81 ("tty: mips_ejtag_fdc: use u8 for character pointers"). That's it for today.) Thanks for review in advance. Any tests are very welcome. Cc: Alexey Malahov <Alexey.Malahov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-serial@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Serge Semin (4): mips: cm: Add __mips_cm_l2sync_phys_base prototype declaration mips: cm: Add CM GCR and L2-sync base address getters declarations mips: zboot: Fix "no previous prototype" build warning tty: mips_ejtag_fdc: Fix passing incompatible pointer type warning arch/mips/boot/compressed/uart-16550.c | 2 ++ arch/mips/boot/compressed/uart-alchemy.c | 2 ++ arch/mips/boot/compressed/uart-prom.c | 2 ++ arch/mips/include/asm/mips-cm.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++ arch/mips/kernel/mips-cm.c | 2 +- drivers/tty/mips_ejtag_fdc.c | 2 +- 6 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) -- 2.43.0