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Message-ID: <71dc38c1646980840fb83d82fc588501af72e05f.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Thu, 05 Nov 2020 22:36:16 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Alex Shi <alex.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>, andrew@...n.ch
Cc:     Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/dsa: remove unused macros to tame gcc warning

On Fri, 2020-11-06 at 13:37 +0800, Alex Shi wrote:
> There are some macros unused, they causes much gcc warnings. Let's
> remove them to tame gcc.

I believe these to be essentially poor warnings.

Aren't these warnings generated only when adding  W=2 to the make
command line?

Perhaps it's better to move the warning to level 3
---
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
index 95e4cdb94fe9..5c3c220ddb32 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
@@ -68,7 +68,6 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -Wlogical-op)
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wmissing-field-initializers
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wtype-limits
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -Wmaybe-uninitialized)
-KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -Wunused-macros)
 
 KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += -DKBUILD_EXTRA_WARN2
 
@@ -89,6 +88,7 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wredundant-decls
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wsign-compare
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wswitch-default
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -Wpacked-bitfield-compat)
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -Wunused-macros)
 
 KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += -DKBUILD_EXTRA_WARN3
 


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