Re: [PATCH] net/dsa: remove unused macros to tame gcc warning

From: Joe Perches
Date: Fri Nov 06 2020 - 03:52:21 EST


On Fri, 2020-11-06 at 16:28 +0800, Alex Shi wrote:
>
> 在 2020/11/6 下午2:36, Joe Perches 写道:
> > On Fri, 2020-11-06 at 13:37 +0800, Alex Shi wrote:
> > > There are some macros unused, they causes much gcc warnings. Let's
> > > remove them to tame gcc.
> >
> > I believe these to be essentially poor warnings.
> >
> > Aren't these warnings generated only when adding W=2 to the make
> > command line?
> >
> > Perhaps it's better to move the warning to level 3
> > ---
> > diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
> > index 95e4cdb94fe9..5c3c220ddb32 100644
> > --- a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
> > +++ b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
> > @@ -68,7 +68,6 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -Wlogical-op)
> >  KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wmissing-field-initializers
> >  KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wtype-limits
> >  KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -Wmaybe-uninitialized)
> > -KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -Wunused-macros)
>
> This changed too much, and impact others. May not good. :)

Can you clarify what you mean?