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Date:   Fri, 9 Nov 2018 11:55:38 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To:     wang.yi59@zte.com.cn, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86/cpu: fix prototype warning
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On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 08:43:12AM +0800, wang.yi59@zte.com.cn wrote:
> Yeah, so that is. However, I suppose we should not enable this by default
> before we fix ALL of these warning,

Yeah, the build is really noisy now.

> which is really a  hard work. :)

Yeah, I wonder if adding this to a kernel janitors TODO list or somesuch
would help speeding up the process.

Maybe Greg knows.

Greg, the question is whether we can get people to help out with

  -Wmissing-prototypes

fixes around the tree. Currently, there are ~1400 warnings and we want
to have 0 and then add that option to the main Makefile.

It is very easy to do: you simply build the kernel with W=1, choose one
-Wmissing-prototypes warning and fix it by adding a function prototype
or declaring the function static.

It should be a pretty easy for newbies to get involved...

> Aha, I will try my best to to work on this, and as you said, that's a long
> road to go, so maybe I would only work on modules which I am familiar with. ;-)

Sounds good.

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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