Re: [PATCH v2] kbuild: add -Wno-unused-but-set-variable flag unconditionally

[Masahiro Yamada]

On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 10:33 AM Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> We have raised the compiler requirement from time to time.
> With commit cafa0010cd51 ("Raise the minimum required gcc version
> to 4.6"), the minimum for GCC is 4.6 now.
>
> This flag was added by GCC 4.6, and it is recognized by ICC as well.
>
> It is true that Clang does not support this flag but this commit is
> just touching the else part of the "ifeq ($(cc-name),clang)" check.
> Hence, Clang build is not affected.
>
> Let's rip off the cc-disable-warning switch, and see if somebody
> complains about it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---


Applied to linux-kbuild.

>
> Changes in v2:
>   - Fix commit log
>
>  Makefile | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 8a23fee..2627266 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -716,7 +716,7 @@ else
>
>  # These warnings generated too much noise in a regular build.
>  # Use make W=1 to enable them (see scripts/Makefile.extrawarn)
> -KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, unused-but-set-variable)
> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-unused-but-set-variable
>  endif
>
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, unused-const-variable)
> --
> 2.7.4
>


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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada