kbuild: disable sparse warnings about unknown attributes
authorLuc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com>
Thu, 15 Feb 2018 21:07:50 +0000 (22:07 +0100)
committerMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Thu, 1 Mar 2018 15:26:46 +0000 (00:26 +0900)
commit6c49f359ca14f973970324afc9b20208fa0bbad5
tree8d72a5a0d225594d4cf762a7507e961db5205ca0
parent61277981dd535ee4b5947b6069badb16f3a21ace
kbuild: disable sparse warnings about unknown attributes

Currently, sparse issues warnings on code using an attribute
it doesn't know about.

One of the problem with this is that these warnings have no
value for the developer, it's just noise for him. At best these
warnings tell something about some deficiencies of sparse itself
but not about a potential problem with code analyzed.

A second problem with this is that sparse release are, alas,
less frequent than new attributes are added to GCC.

So, avoid the noise by asking sparse to not warn about
attributes it doesn't know about.

Reference: https://marc.info/?l=linux-sparse&m=151871600016790
Reference: https://marc.info/?l=linux-sparse&m=151871725417322
Signed-off-by: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
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