linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2] kbuild: clang: Disable 'address-of-packed-member' warning

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Date:   Fri, 21 Apr 2017 14:39:30 -0700
From:   Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>
Cc:     linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Grant Grundler <grundler@...omium.org>,
        Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@...gle.com>,
        Michael Davidson <md@...gle.com>,
        Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] kbuild: clang: Disable 'address-of-packed-member' warning

clang generates plenty of these warnings in different parts of the code,
to an extent that the warnings are little more than noise. Disable the
'address-of-packed-member' warning.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org>
---
 Makefile | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 5039b9148d15..df5abf346354 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -703,6 +703,7 @@ KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Wno-unknown-warning-option,)
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, unused-variable)
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, format-invalid-specifier)
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, gnu)
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, address-of-packed-member)
 # Quiet clang warning: comparison of unsigned expression < 0 is always false
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, tautological-compare)
 # CLANG uses a _MergedGlobals as optimization, but this breaks modpost, as the
-- 
2.12.2.816.g2cccc81164-goog