linux-kernel - [PATCH] kbuild: clang: disable unused variable warnings only when constant

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Date:   Tue,  6 Feb 2018 15:46:51 -0800
From:   Prasad Sodagudi <psodagud@...eaurora.org>
To:     yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com
Cc:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, segher@...nel.crashing.org,
        ghackmann@...gle.com, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Prasad Sodagudi <psodagud@...eaurora.org>
Subject: [PATCH] kbuild: clang: disable unused variable warnings only when constant

Currently, GCC disables -Wunused-const-variable, but not
-Wunused-variable, so warns unused variables if they are
non-constant.

While, Clang does not warn unused variables at all regardless of
the const qualifier because -Wno-unused-const-variable is implied
by the stronger option -Wno-unused-variable.

Disable -Wunused-const-variable instead of -Wunused-variable so that
GCC and Clang work in the same way.

Signed-off-by: Prasad Sodagudi <psodagud@...eaurora.org>
Reviewed-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
---
 Makefile | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 11aff0f..ca0a571 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -700,7 +700,6 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(stackp-flag)
 
 ifeq ($(cc-name),clang)
 KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Qunused-arguments,)
-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)
@@ -718,9 +717,9 @@ else
 # These warnings generated too much noise in a regular build.
 # Use make W=1 to enable them (see scripts/Makefile.extrawarn)
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, unused-but-set-variable)
-KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, unused-const-variable)
 endif
 
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, unused-const-variable)
 ifdef CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER
 KBUILD_CFLAGS	+= -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fno-optimize-sibling-calls
 else
-- 
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