The patch titled Subject: CFLAGS: add -Wunused-but-set-parameter has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is cflags-add-wunused-but-set-parameter.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/cflags-add-wunused-but-set-parameter.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/cflags-add-wunused-but-set-parameter.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: CFLAGS: add -Wunused-but-set-parameter -Wunused-but-set-parameter is finding stuff with current allmodconfig: drivers/misc/mic/scif/scif_dma.c:118:27: warning: parameter 'ep' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-parameter] drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_83xx_hw.c:2156:8: warning: parameter 'function' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-parameter] drivers/net/ethernet/ti/tlan.c:1647:59: warning: parameter 'host_int' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-parameter] drivers/usb/gadget/udc/pxa27x_udc.c:1828:74: warning: parameter 'driver' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-parameter] and judging by changelogs, people were using it before, but were too scared to change top level Makefile. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160713190622.GB1910@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Makefile | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff -puN Makefile~cflags-add-wunused-but-set-parameter Makefile --- a/Makefile~cflags-add-wunused-but-set-parameter +++ a/Makefile @@ -796,6 +796,9 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Wer # enforce correct pointer usage KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types) +# dead code +KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Wunused-but-set-parameter,) + # use the deterministic mode of AR if available KBUILD_ARFLAGS := $(call ar-option,D) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx are cflags-add-wunused-but-set-parameter.patch mm-faster-kmalloc_array-kcalloc.patch ban-config_localversion_auto-with-allmodconfig.patch ipc-delete-nr_ipc_ns.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html