[PATCH 2/2] MIPS: bcm63xx: kbuild: remove -Werror

[Ralf Baechle]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 04:48:30PM +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:

> From: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy at linux.intel.com>
> 
> I cannot build bcm963xx with the standard Kbuild W=1 switch:
> 
> arch/mips/bcm63xx/boards/board_bcm963xx.c: At top level:
> arch/mips/bcm63xx/boards/board_bcm963xx.c:647:5: error: no previous prototype for 'bcm63xx_get_fallback_sprom' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
> cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
> 
> This patch removes the gcc switch to make W=1 work. Mips is the only
> architecture I know which does not build with W=1 and this upsets my aiaiai
> scripts. And in general, you never know which warnings newer versions of gcc
> will start emiting so having -Werror by default is not the best idea.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy at linux.intel.com>
> ---
>  arch/mips/bcm63xx/boards/Makefile |    2 --
>  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/mips/bcm63xx/boards/Makefile b/arch/mips/bcm63xx/boards/Makefile
> index 9f64fb4..af07c1a 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/bcm63xx/boards/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/mips/bcm63xx/boards/Makefile
> @@ -1,3 +1 @@
>  obj-$(CONFIG_BOARD_BCM963XX)		+= board_bcm963xx.o
> -
> -ccflags-y := -Werror

There's been a whole bunch of other -Werrors below arch/mips some of
which even were combined with -Wall.  I removed all off them except the
central -Werror in arch/mips/Kbuild.  I'm pondering a better solution
for that one now.

  Ralf