[PATCH 00/20] x86: address -Wmissing-prototype warnings

Dave Hansen
Thu, 18 May 2023 21:56:52 -0000

On 5/16/23 12:35, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
>
> This addresses all x86 specific prototype warnings. The majority of the
> patches should be straightforward, either adding an #include statement
> to get the right header, or ensuring that an unused global function is
> left out of the build when the prototype is hidden.
>
> The ones that are a bit awkward are those that just add a prototype to
> shut up the warning, but the prototypes are never used for calling the
> function because the only caller is in assembler code. I tried to come up
> with other ways to shut up the compiler using the asmlinkage annotation,
> but with no success.
>
> All of the warnings have to be addressed in some form before the warning
> can be enabled by default.

I picked up the ones that were blatantly obvious, but left out 03, 04,
10, 12 and 19 for the moment.

BTW, I think the i386 allyesconfig is getting pretty lightly tested
these days.  I think you and I hit the same mlx4 __bad_copy_from()
compile issue.