From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 4.1 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== [ Upstream commit c9c6837d39311b0cc14cdbe7c18e815ab44aefb1 ] 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> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Makefile | 5 +++-- scripts/Makefile.extrawarn | 1 + 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 52b1c25..f39c855 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -686,9 +686,10 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -mno-global-merge,) 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 diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn index f734033..5c17a5c 100644 --- a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn +++ b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ warning-1 += $(call cc-option, -Wmissing-prototypes) 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 -- 2.5.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html