From: Luc Van Oostenryck Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 21:07:50 +0000 (+0100) Subject: kbuild: disable sparse warnings about unknown attributes X-Git-Tag: v4.16-rc4~8^2~11 X-Git-Url: https://www.infradead.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6c49f359ca14f973970324afc9b20208fa0bbad5;p=linux-platform-drivers-x86.git kbuild: disable sparse warnings about unknown attributes Currently, sparse issues warnings on code using an attribute it doesn't know about. One of the problem with this is that these warnings have no value for the developer, it's just noise for him. At best these warnings tell something about some deficiencies of sparse itself but not about a potential problem with code analyzed. A second problem with this is that sparse release are, alas, less frequent than new attributes are added to GCC. So, avoid the noise by asking sparse to not warn about attributes it doesn't know about. Reference: https://marc.info/?l=linux-sparse&m=151871600016790 Reference: https://marc.info/?l=linux-sparse&m=151871725417322 Signed-off-by: Luc Van Oostenryck Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Tested-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada --- diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index ae07c704ba6f..7b3080423b8a 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -388,7 +388,7 @@ PYTHON = python CHECK = sparse CHECKFLAGS := -D__linux__ -Dlinux -D__STDC__ -Dunix -D__unix__ \ - -Wbitwise -Wno-return-void $(CF) + -Wbitwise -Wno-return-void -Wno-unknown-attribute $(CF) NOSTDINC_FLAGS = CFLAGS_MODULE = AFLAGS_MODULE =