This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
kbuild: move -Wunused-const-variable to W=1 warning level
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
kbuild-move-wunused-const-variable-to-w-1-warning-level.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From c9c6837d39311b0cc14cdbe7c18e815ab44aefb1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 23:30:01 +0200
Subject: kbuild: move -Wunused-const-variable to W=1 warning level
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
commit c9c6837d39311b0cc14cdbe7c18e815ab44aefb1 upstream.
gcc-6 started warning by default about variables that are not
used anywhere and that are marked 'const', generating many
false positives in an allmodconfig build, e.g.:
arch/arm/mach-davinci/board-da830-evm.c:282:20: warning: 'da830_evm_emif25_pins' defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=]
arch/arm/plat-omap/dmtimer.c:958:34: warning: 'omap_timer_match' defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=]
drivers/bluetooth/hci_bcm.c:625:39: warning: 'acpi_bcm_default_gpios' defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=]
drivers/char/hw_random/omap-rng.c:92:18: warning: 'reg_map_omap4' defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=]
drivers/devfreq/exynos/exynos5_bus.c:381:32: warning: 'exynos5_busfreq_int_pm' defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=]
drivers/dma/mv_xor.c:1139:34: warning: 'mv_xor_dt_ids' defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=]
This is similar to the existing -Wunused-but-set-variable warning
that was added in an earlier release and that we disable by default
now and only enable when W=1 is set, so it makes sense to do
the same here. Once we have eliminated the majority of the
warnings for both, we can put them back into the default list.
We probably want this in backport kernels as well, to allow building
them with gcc-6 without introducing extra warnings.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Makefile | 5 +++--
scripts/Makefile.extrawarn | 1 +
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -682,9 +682,10 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -mno-
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -fcatch-undefined-behavior)
else
-# This warning generated too much noise in a regular build.
-# Use make W=1 to enable this warning (see scripts/Makefile.build)
+# These warnings generated too much noise in a regular build.
+# Use make W=1 to enable them (see scripts/Makefile.build)
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, unused-but-set-variable)
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, unused-const-variable)
endif
ifdef CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER
--- a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ warning-1 += $(call cc-option, -Wmissing
warning-1 += -Wold-style-definition
warning-1 += $(call cc-option, -Wmissing-include-dirs)
warning-1 += $(call cc-option, -Wunused-but-set-variable)
+warning-1 += $(call cc-option, -Wunused-const-variable)
warning-1 += $(call cc-disable-warning, missing-field-initializers)
warning-2 := -Waggregate-return
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from arnd@xxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/kbuild-move-wunused-const-variable-to-w-1-warning-level.patch
queue-4.4/signal-move-generic-copy_siginfo-to-signal.h.patch
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