Hi Miguel,
On Sun, Oct 7, 2018 at 6:18 AM Miguel Ojeda
<miguel.ojeda.sandonis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 10:35 AM 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.
>
> I think marking the function as static __used should do the trick and
> would be less confusing.
I tried __used, but I still see the warning.
masahiro@grover:~/ref/linux$ git diff
diff --git a/kernel/bounds.c b/kernel/bounds.c
index c373e88..aee0101 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)
+void __used foo(void)
{
/* The enum constants to put into include/generated/bounds.h */
DEFINE(NR_PAGEFLAGS, __NR_PAGEFLAGS);
masahiro@grover:~/ref/linux$ make W=1 prepare
CC kernel/bounds.s
kernel/bounds.c:16:13: warning: no previous prototype for ‘foo’
[-Wmissing-prototypes]
void __used foo(void)
^
CC arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.s
--
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada
