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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>,
	linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Makefile: enable -Werror=implicit-int and -Werror=strict-prototypes by default
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 14:18:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130815141848.0af8cc27fa852905a35b02f8@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1376591851-31854-1-git-send-email-slyfox@gentoo.org>

On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 21:37:31 +0300 Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org> wrote:

> The common error type found in forward-ported/backported patches is missing headers.
> One recent example (files and function names are mangled):
> 
>     void foo(){}
>     EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo);
> 
> gave only warning
> 
>     foo.c:12345678:5: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype [-Wstrict-prototypes]
>     void foo(){}
>          ^
> 
>     foo.c:12345679:5: warning: data definition has no type or storage class [enabled by default]
>     EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo);
>     foo.c:12345679:5: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'EXORT_SYMBOL' [-Werror=implicit-int]
> 
> Now it's a fata error. Tested on x86_64 allyesconfig.

Yes, let's try that.

Partly because the build still generates far too many warnings..

  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-15 21:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-15 18:37 [PATCH v2] Makefile: enable -Werror=implicit-int and -Werror=strict-prototypes by default Sergei Trofimovich
2013-08-15 21:18 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2013-08-23 12:18 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-08-23 17:37   ` Sergei Trofimovich
2013-08-23 17:55   ` [PATCH v3] " Sergei Trofimovich

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