Re: [PATCH 1/7] drivers: usb: Include appropriate header file inhcd.c

[Josh Triplett]

On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 05:33:09PM -0000, David Laight wrote:
> > > These warning are non-default GCC warnings. These can be seen either
> > > by adding W=1 while running make (i.e. make W=1) or adding
> > > -Wmissing-prototypes in KBUILD_CFLAGS in the toplevel Makefile.
> > 
> > By default, we don't care about 'W=1' warnings, as no one sees them, and
> > they don't matter.
> 
> -Wmissing-prototypes really ought to be defined.

Yeah, that's the plan; this volume of patches should make it
sufficiently low-noise to allow turning it on by default.

> Some of the other warning are a little more pedantic, the most annoying
> is -Wsign-compare.  OTOH a lot of code out there is clean enough to build
> without any warnings and with a moderate amount of pedantry from the compiler.
> 
> OTOH just including extra headers isn't ideal - it can considerably
> slow down the compilation time. There are many subsystems that don't
> really separate their internal headers from their external ones.

There's a benefit to doing so, though: it ensures that the prototypes in
the header stay in sync with the definition.

- Josh Triplett
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