linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] x86/boot/KASLR: Fix unused variable warning

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Date:   Fri, 10 Jan 2020 10:00:32 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@...il.com>
Cc:     Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Chao Fan <fanc.fnst@...fujitsu.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86/boot/KASLR: Fix unused variable warning

On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 10:27:02AM +0800, Zhenzhong Duan wrote:
> Yes. Will you send this formally?

And then a flood of fix-this-trivial-warning patches ensues?

You should know that they have the lowest prio when it comes to looking
at them.

> Not clear if there is other reason making KBUILD_CFLAGS for
> arch/x86/boot/compressed different from other part.

Maybe because the kernel proper build system should not break the
compressed kernel's build as the two are quite different... maybe for
historical raisins...

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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