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Message-ID: <CAKwvOdncCH4uoKfTnYf5pgTtY49b-S7XfWoF4UnH4b3AV3R3vA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 7 Aug 2023 09:54:44 -0700
From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Nicolas Schier <nicolas@...sle.eu>, Tom Rix <trix@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        llvm@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile.extrawarn: enable -Wmissing-variable-declarations
 for W=1

On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 9:50 AM Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> I noticed Tom was sending patches where smatch was recommending
> annotating functions as static when no previous declaration existed.
> Surely the compiler could make such recommendations as well, I thought.
>
> Looks like -Wmissing-variable-declarations can make such
> recommendations.
>
> GCC just added support for this warning (gcc 14.1.0 will ship with
> support), and all versions of clang relevant to building the kernel
> support this flag.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
> ---
>  scripts/Makefile.extrawarn | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
> index 40cd13eca82e..617739eb84e2 100644
> --- a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
> +++ b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
> @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -Wunused-but-set-variable)
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -Wunused-const-variable)
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -Wpacked-not-aligned)
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -Wstringop-truncation)
> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -Wmissing-varibale-declarations)

^ sigh, misspelled

>  # The following turn off the warnings enabled by -Wextra
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-missing-field-initializers
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-sign-compare
>
> ---
> base-commit: 52a93d39b17dc7eb98b6aa3edb93943248e03b2f
> change-id: 20230807-missing_proto-0cb90ec6454c
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
>


-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers

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