linux-kernel - Re: -Wmissing-prototypes (was: make foo() static)

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Message-ID: <20080701071735.GA17047@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi>
Date:	Tue, 1 Jul 2008 10:17:35 +0300
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:	Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: -Wmissing-prototypes (was: make foo() static)

On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 08:42:59AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> > This patch makes the needlessly global kvm_smp_prepare_boot_cpu() static.
> 
> Hmm, maybe we should build the kernel with -Wmissing-prototypes?
> That should make gcc print a warning for that ...

I started 3 or 4 years ago cleaning up the kernel for 
-Wmissing-prototypes and I'm still working on it.

Many parts of the kernel now compile cleanly or nearly cleanly, but 
looking at e.g. arch/ I know what kind of answers I would get if 
suggesting adding -Wmissing-prototypes today...

> cheers,
>   Gerd

cu
Adrian

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