linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/irqflags: provide a declaration for native_save

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Date:   Mon, 6 Aug 2018 12:38:26 +0200
From:   Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>
To:     David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com>
Cc:     Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        "tglx@...utronix.de" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "mingo@...hat.com" <mingo@...hat.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/irqflags: provide a declaration for native_save_fl

On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 12:25 PM, David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com> wrote:
> From: Nick Desaulniers
>> Sent: 03 August 2018 18:06
>> Fixes commit d0a8d9378d16 ("x86/paravirt: Make native_save_fl() extern
>> inline").
>>
>> It was reported that the above commit was causing users of gcc < 4.9 to
>> observe -Werror=missing-prototypes errors.
>>
>> Indeed, it seems that:
>> extern inline unsigned long native_save_fl(void) { return 0; }
>>
>> compiled with -Werror=missing-prototypes produces this warning in gcc <
>> 4.9, but not gcc >= 4.9.
>>
>> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org # 4.17, 4.14, 4.9, 4.4
>> Reported-by: David Laight <david.laight@...lab.com>
>> Reported-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>
>> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
>
> You can add my:
>
> Tested-by: David Laight <david.laight@...ab.com>
>

Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>

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