linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the wireless-next tree

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Date:	Thu, 4 Apr 2013 12:04:02 +1100
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
Cc:	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the wireless-next tree

Hi John,

On Thu, 4 Apr 2013 12:00:43 +1100 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
>
> After merging the wireless-next tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64
> allmodconfig) produced this warning:
> 
> x86_64-linux-gcc: warning: drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi: linker input file unused because linking not done
> x86_64-linux-gcc: warning: drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi: linker input file unused because linking not done
> x86_64-linux-gcc: warning: drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi: linker input file unused because linking not done
> x86_64-linux-gcc: warning: drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi: linker input file unused because linking not done
> x86_64-linux-gcc: warning: drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi: linker input file unused because linking not done
> x86_64-linux-gcc: warning: drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi: linker input file unused because linking not done
> x86_64-linux-gcc: warning: drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi: linker input file unused because linking not done
> x86_64-linux-gcc: warning: drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi: linker input file unused because linking not done
> x86_64-linux-gcc: warning: drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi: linker input file unused because linking not done
> x86_64-linux-gcc: warning: drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi: linker input file unused because linking not done
> x86_64-linux-gcc: warning: drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi: linker input file unused because linking not done
> 
> I have no idea what caused that.

Though I suspect commit 8b138d4898a0 ("rtlwifi: rtl8188ee: Enable build
of new driver") - I wonder if the gap between the "-I" and
"drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi" added to ccflags-y is the cause?

I am using gcc 4.6.3 if that matters.
-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au

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