Messages in this thread | | | From | Miguel Ojeda <> | Date | Wed, 23 Jan 2019 18:17:20 +0100 | Subject | Re: New warnings with gcc9 |
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Hi Laura,
On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 4:27 PM Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> wrote: > > There's also some missing attribute warnings. The majority are caused by a > missing attribute in module_init/module_exit > > BUILDSTDERR: In file included from drivers/scsi/hptiop.c:18: > BUILDSTDERR: ./include/linux/module.h:132:6: warning: 'init_module' specifies less restrictive attribute than its target 'hptiop_module_init': 'cold' [-Wmissing-attributes] > BUILDSTDERR: 132 | int init_module(void) __attribute__((alias(#initfn))); > BUILDSTDERR: | ^~~~~~~~~~~ > BUILDSTDERR: drivers/scsi/hptiop.c:1704:1: note: in expansion of macro 'module_init' > BUILDSTDERR: 1704 | module_init(hptiop_module_init); > BUILDSTDERR: | ^~~~~~~~~~~ > BUILDSTDERR: drivers/scsi/hptiop.c:1692:19: note: 'init_module' target declared here > BUILDSTDERR: 1692 | static int __init hptiop_module_init(void) > BUILDSTDERR: |
I have been discussing these new -Wmissing-attributes warnings with the author, Martin Sebor. There is a new copy() attribute that we may take advantage of, but I will send the patch I have since you already found this :-)
Cheers, Miguel
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