On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 09:44:10AM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 23:19 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > This patch fixes the following problem present with older gcc versions:
> >
> > <-- snip -->
> >
> > ...
> > CC drivers/pci/msi.o
> > /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/drivers/pci/msi.c:692: warning: weak declaration of `arch_msi_check_device' after first use results in unspecified behavior
> > /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/drivers/pci/msi.c:704: warning: weak declaration of `arch_setup_msi_irqs' after first use results in unspecified behavior
> > /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/drivers/pci/msi.c:724: warning: weak declaration of `arch_teardown_msi_irqs' after first use results in unspecified behavior
> > ...
> >
> > <-- snip -->
>
> They're declared in <linux/msi.h>, I don't see what it's problem is.
Older gcc versions don't like that they cannot see that they are weak
functions at the time when they are used.
I'm not sure whether the generated code does the right thing, but even
if it does rearranging the code doesn't do any harm here.
> cheers
cu
Adrian
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