From 0bf8bf50eddc7511b52461bae798cbfaa0157a34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthias Kaehlcke Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 18:27:25 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] module: Remove const attribute from alias for MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(type, name) creates an alias of type 'extern const typeof(name)'. If 'name' is already constant the 'const' attribute is specified twice, which is not allowed in C89 (see discussion at https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/5/23/1440). Since the kernel is built with -std=gnu89 clang generates warnings like this: drivers/thermal/x86_pkg_temp_thermal.c:509:1: warning: duplicate 'const' declaration specifier [-Wduplicate-decl-specifier] MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(x86cpu, pkg_temp_thermal_ids); ^ ./include/linux/module.h:212:8: note: expanded from macro 'MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE' extern const typeof(name) __mod_##type##__##name##_device_table Remove the const attribute from the alias to avoid the duplicate specifier. After all it is only an alias and the attribute shouldn't have any effect. Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu --- include/linux/module.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/linux/module.h b/include/linux/module.h index e7bdd549e527..fe5aa3736707 100644 --- a/include/linux/module.h +++ b/include/linux/module.h @@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ extern void cleanup_module(void); #ifdef MODULE /* Creates an alias so file2alias.c can find device table. */ #define MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(type, name) \ -extern const typeof(name) __mod_##type##__##name##_device_table \ +extern typeof(name) __mod_##type##__##name##_device_table \ __attribute__ ((unused, alias(__stringify(name)))) #else /* !MODULE */ #define MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(type, name) -- 2.20.1