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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/qede: fix gcc compiler option checks
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 15:12:03 -0700
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On Thu, 27 Oct 2016 23:37:57 -0700
Rasesh Mody <rasesh.mody@qlogic.com> wrote:

> From: Rasesh Mody <Rasesh.Mody@cavium.com>
> 
> Using GCC_VERSION to check gcc version and decide whether to include
> that compiler option.
> 
> Fixes: ec94dbc57362 ("qede: add base driver")
> Fixes: ecc7a5a27ffe ("net/qede/base: fix 32-bit build")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rasesh Mody <Rasesh.Mody@cavium.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/qede/Makefile | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/qede/Makefile b/drivers/net/qede/Makefile
> index 39751e4..29b443d 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/qede/Makefile
> +++ b/drivers/net/qede/Makefile
> @@ -46,11 +46,11 @@ endif
>  endif
>  
>  ifeq ($(CONFIG_RTE_TOOLCHAIN_GCC),y)
> -ifeq ($(shell gcc -Wno-unused-but-set-variable -Werror -E - < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1; echo $$?),0)
> +ifeq ($(shell test $(GCC_VERSION) -ge 44 && echo 1), 1)
>  CFLAGS_BASE_DRIVER += -Wno-unused-but-set-variable
>  endif
>  CFLAGS_BASE_DRIVER += -Wno-missing-declarations
> -ifeq ($(shell gcc -Wno-maybe-uninitialized -Werror -E - < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1; echo $$?),0)
> +ifeq ($(shell test $(GCC_VERSION) -ge 46 && echo 1), 1)
>  CFLAGS_BASE_DRIVER += -Wno-maybe-uninitialized
>  endif
>  CFLAGS_BASE_DRIVER += -Wno-strict-prototypes

Does this mean that less compiler checking is done or more?
It seems lots of drivers make the excuse:
 "the base driver comes from another group and is known buggy but can't be fixed"
That doesn't reflect well on the quality of the DPDK.