[08/25] kbuild: Disable -Wunused-but-set-variable for gcc 4.6.0

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Nov 22 2011 - 19:34:26 EST


2.6.32-longterm review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit af0e5d565d2fffcd97d1e2d89669d627cc04e8b8 upstream.

Disable the new -Wunused-but-set-variable that was added in gcc 4.6.0
It produces more false positives than useful warnings.

This can still be enabled using W=1
[gregkh - No it can not for 2.6.32, but we don't care]

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

---
Makefile | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -537,6 +537,9 @@ ifndef CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -fno-stack-protector)
endif

+# This warning generated too much noise in a regular build.
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -Wno-unused-but-set-variable)
+
ifdef CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fno-optimize-sibling-calls
else


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