linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] misc: cxl: fix build for GCC 4.6.x

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Message-ID: <1452219135.18702.0.camel@ellerman.id.au>
Date:	Fri, 08 Jan 2016 13:12:15 +1100
From:	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
To:	Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>,
	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@....ibm.com>,
	Ian Munsie <imunsie@....ibm.com>,
	Michael Neuling <mikey@...ling.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] misc: cxl: fix build for GCC 4.6.x

On Thu, 2016-01-07 at 12:38 -0800, Brian Norris wrote:

> GCC 4.6.3 does not support -Wno-unused-const-variable. Instead, use the
> kbuild infrastructure that checks if this options exists.

Thanks.

> Also drop -Werror, since it's harmful, if forced on the user. New GCC's,
> or higher warning verbosities (e.g., W=1) can easily kill the build
> where they shouldn't.

But no thanks.

Please resend with just the cc-disable-warning change.

cheers