On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 5:34 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Building any configuration with 'make W=1' produces a warning:
>
> kernel/bounds.c:16:6: warnign: no previous prototype for 'foo' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
>
> When also passing -Werror, this prevents us from building any
> other files. Nobody ever calls the function, but we can't make
> it 'static' either since we want the compiler output.
>
> Calling it 'main' instead however avoids the warning, because gcc
> does not insist on having a declaration for main.
>
> Reported-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
Applied to kbuild/fixes
with 's/warnign/warning/'
Thanks!
> I have run into this problem several times before, and thought I had
> sent a fix at some point. Looking in the archives, I came across
> the suggested fix from Kieran, so I'm following up on that here.
> ---
> kernel/bounds.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/bounds.c b/kernel/bounds.c
> index c373e887c066..9795d75b09b2 100644
> --- a/kernel/bounds.c
> +++ b/kernel/bounds.c
> @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
> #include <linux/log2.h>
> #include <linux/spinlock_types.h>
>
> -void foo(void)
> +int main(void)
> {
> /* The enum constants to put into include/generated/bounds.h */
> DEFINE(NR_PAGEFLAGS, __NR_PAGEFLAGS);
> @@ -23,4 +23,6 @@ void foo(void)
> #endif
> DEFINE(SPINLOCK_SIZE, sizeof(spinlock_t));
> /* End of constants */
> +
> + return 0;
> }
> --
> 2.18.0
>
--
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada
