linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] kbuild: clang: Disable the 'duplicate-decl-specifier' warning

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Date:   Wed, 21 Jun 2017 14:19:32 -0700
From:   Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Doug Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>,
        Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Grant Grundler <grundler@...omium.org>,
        Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@...gle.com>,
        Michael Davidson <md@...gle.com>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        Bernhard Rosenkränzer <bero@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] kbuild: clang: Disable the
 'duplicate-decl-specifier' warning

El Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 07:59:42PM +0200 Arnd Bergmann ha dit:

> On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 6:58 PM, Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org> wrote:
> > El Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 12:11:55PM +0200 Arnd Bergmann ha dit:
> >> I see that container_of() has been modified in linux-next and no longer adds
> >> the 'const' keyword, do we actually still need the patch?
> >
> > There is still (at least) the case of const arrays passed to
> > MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE.
> 
> Does the 'const' have any effect there? As it's just an alias, it
> should at least
> not impact the placement of the symbol in the object file, right?

I agree, it shouldn't make a difference.

> Maybe we can just remove that 'const' too.

Seems worth a try. Do you want to send a patch for the removal?

> Do you see any other instances?

For both x86 and arm64 defconfig the instances are all from
container_of() or MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE.