On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 04:42:25PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 09:58:39PM +0800, kernel test robot wrote:
> >
> > >> drivers/char/hw_random/npcm-rng.c:166:34: warning: unused variable
> > >> 'rng_dt_id' [-Wunused-const-variable]
> > static const struct of_device_id rng_dt_id[] = {
> > ^
> > 1 warning generated.
>
> The kernel is supposed to be built with -Wno-unused-const-variable,
> so I guess this is a deficiency in clang.
>
> Cheers,
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No deficiency in clang, it's a W=1 build, which explicitly enables
-Wunused-const-variable per scripts/Kbuild.extrawarn. The 0day team
decided to enable W=1 for all build tests, hence the comment in the
reproduce notes. A thread with discussion:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202005200123.gfjgzjeh%25...@intel.com/
Cheers,
Nathan
