On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 6:17 PM Miguel Ojeda <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Laura, > > On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 4:27 PM Laura Abbott <[email protected]> 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 :-)
Sent -- since someone asked me for it, here it is the reference: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/ Cheers, Miguel

