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kbuild: move -Wunused-const-variable to W=1 warning level
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gcc-6 started warning by default about variables that are not
used anywhere and that are marked 'const', generating many
false positives in an allmodconfig build, e.g.:

arch/arm/mach-davinci/board-da830-evm.c:282:20: warning: 'da830_evm_emif25_pins' defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=]
arch/arm/plat-omap/dmtimer.c:958:34: warning: 'omap_timer_match' defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=]
drivers/bluetooth/hci_bcm.c:625:39: warning: 'acpi_bcm_default_gpios' defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=]
drivers/char/hw_random/omap-rng.c:92:18: warning: 'reg_map_omap4' defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=]
drivers/devfreq/exynos/exynos5_bus.c:381:32: warning: 'exynos5_busfreq_int_pm' defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=]
drivers/dma/mv_xor.c:1139:34: warning: 'mv_xor_dt_ids' defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=]

This is similar to the existing -Wunused-but-set-variable warning
that was added in an earlier release and that we disable by default
now and only enable when W=1 is set, so it makes sense to do
the same here. Once we have eliminated the majority of the
warnings for both, we can put them back into the default list.

We probably want this in backport kernels as well, to allow building
them with gcc-6 without introducing extra warnings.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Acked-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
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arndb authored and sashalevin committed Jun 6, 2016
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5 changes: 3 additions & 2 deletions Makefile
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Expand Up @@ -686,9 +686,10 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -mno-global-merge,)
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -fcatch-undefined-behavior)
else

# This warning generated too much noise in a regular build.
# Use make W=1 to enable this warning (see scripts/Makefile.build)
# These warnings generated too much noise in a regular build.
# Use make W=1 to enable them (see scripts/Makefile.build)
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, unused-but-set-variable)
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, unused-const-variable)
endif

ifdef CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
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Expand Up @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ warning-1 += $(call cc-option, -Wmissing-prototypes)
warning-1 += -Wold-style-definition
warning-1 += $(call cc-option, -Wmissing-include-dirs)
warning-1 += $(call cc-option, -Wunused-but-set-variable)
warning-1 += $(call cc-option, -Wunused-const-variable)
warning-1 += $(call cc-disable-warning, missing-field-initializers)

warning-2 := -Waggregate-return
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