Re: [PATCH 2/2] selftests/lib.mk: silence some clang warnings that gcc already ignores

[Shuah Khan]

On 5/30/24 13:28, John Hubbard wrote:
> On 5/30/24 7:25 AM, Shuah Khan wrote:
> > On 5/28/24 20:08, John Hubbard wrote:
> > > gcc defaults to silence (off) for the following warnings, but clang
> > > defaults to the opposite. These warnings are not useful for kselftests,
> > > so silence them for the clang builds as well:
> >
> > Please you add more information on why they aren't useful
> > for kselftests.
>
> Ah OK. My wording is a little misleading. The warnings are not useful
> for the *kernel*, as previous decided by the gcc settings when building
> the kernel. And it is only only due to including kernel data structures
> in the selftests, that we get the warnings on clang.
>
> So it is not something unique to the selftests. There is nothing that
> the selftests' code does that triggers these warnings, other than the
> act of including the kernel's data structures.
>
> I can post a v2 to update both the comment and the commit description.
 
Yes please.

thanks,
-- Shuah