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SubjectRe: [PATCH] (-mm) drivers/pci/msi: explicit declaration of msi_register
Adrian Bunk wrote:
>>include2/asm/msi.h: In function `ia64_msi_init':
>>include2/asm/msi.h:23: warning: implicit declaration of function `msi_register'
>>In file included from include2/asm/machvec.h:408,
>> from include2/asm/io.h:70,
>> from include2/asm/smp.h:20,
>> from /build/rc6/source/include/linux/smp.h:22,
>>...
>
> To avoid any wrong impression:
>
> This kind of warnings isn't harmless.
>
> gcc tries to guess the prototype of the function, and if gcc guessed
> wrong this can cause nasty and hard to debug runtime errors.

Sure.
But for this case, gcc emits the above warning for any files
which includes, for example, include/linux/smp.h on ia64.
So while the warning is harmless, it may cause other harmful
warnings being overlooked.

Thanks,
--
Jun'ichi Nomura, NEC Solutions (America), Inc.
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