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From:   Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Date:   Sun, 7 Oct 2018 05:31:21 +0900
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: fix kernel/bounds.c 'W=1' warning
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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        Linux-Renesas <linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org>,
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On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 5:34 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
>
> Building any configuration with 'make W=1' produces a warning:
>
> kernel/bounds.c:16:6: warnign: no previous prototype for 'foo' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
>
> When also passing -Werror, this prevents us from building any
> other files. Nobody ever calls the function, but we can't make
> it 'static' either since we want the compiler output.
>
> Calling it 'main' instead however avoids the warning, because gcc
> does not insist on having a declaration for main.
>
> Reported-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham+renesas@ideasonboard.com>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> ---


Applied to kbuild/fixes
with 's/warnign/warning/'

Thanks!


> I have run into this problem several times before, and thought I had
> sent a fix at some point. Looking in the archives, I came across
> the suggested fix from Kieran, so I'm following up on that here.
> ---
>  kernel/bounds.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/bounds.c b/kernel/bounds.c
> index c373e887c066..9795d75b09b2 100644
> --- a/kernel/bounds.c
> +++ b/kernel/bounds.c
> @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
>  #include <linux/log2.h>
>  #include <linux/spinlock_types.h>
>
> -void foo(void)
> +int main(void)
>  {
>         /* The enum constants to put into include/generated/bounds.h */
>         DEFINE(NR_PAGEFLAGS, __NR_PAGEFLAGS);
> @@ -23,4 +23,6 @@ void foo(void)
>  #endif
>         DEFINE(SPINLOCK_SIZE, sizeof(spinlock_t));
>         /* End of constants */
> +
> +       return 0;
>  }
> --
> 2.18.0
>


-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada