From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: wang.yi59@zte.com.cn, matz@suse.de, tglx@linutronix.de,
mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, x86@kernel.org,
suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com, puwen@hygon.cn,
davidwang@zhaoxin.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
zhong.weidong@zte.com.cn
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86/cpu: fix prototype warning
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2018 03:12:25 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181109111225.GA26335@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181109105538.GA21243@zn.tnic>
On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 11:55:38AM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> 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...
Sure, sounds like a good task. Post it to the driverdevel mailing list
and see if people are interested.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-09 11:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-08 1:12 [PATCH v2] x86/cpu: fix prototype warning Yi Wang
2018-11-08 15:03 ` Borislav Petkov
2018-11-08 15:32 ` Borislav Petkov
2018-11-08 15:35 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-08 15:41 ` Borislav Petkov
2018-11-09 16:07 ` David Laight
2018-11-10 10:51 ` [tip:ras/core] x86/mce: Fix -Wmissing-prototypes warnings tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
2018-11-10 14:16 ` Borislav Petkov
2018-11-12 5:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2018-11-12 12:19 ` Borislav Petkov
2018-11-13 14:22 ` [tip:x86/cleanups] x86/traps: Complete prototype declarations tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
2018-11-14 13:19 ` tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
2018-11-13 14:21 ` [tip:x86/cleanups] x86/mce: Fix -Wmissing-prototypes warnings tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
2018-11-14 13:18 ` tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
2018-11-08 15:47 ` [PATCH v2] x86/cpu: fix prototype warning Michael Matz
2018-11-08 17:22 ` Borislav Petkov
[not found] ` <201811090843126464658@zte.com.cn>
2018-11-09 10:55 ` Borislav Petkov
2018-11-09 11:12 ` Greg KH [this message]
2018-11-09 11:41 ` Borislav Petkov
2018-11-09 12:25 ` Greg KH
2018-11-09 22:17 ` Borislav Petkov
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