On Thu, 27 Oct 2016 23:37:57 -0700
Rasesh Mody <rasesh.mody at qlogic.com> wrote:
> From: Rasesh Mody <Rasesh.Mody at cavium.com>
>
> Using GCC_VERSION to check gcc version and decide whether to include
> that compiler option.
>
> Fixes: ec94dbc57362 ("qede: add base driver")
> Fixes: ecc7a5a27ffe ("net/qede/base: fix 32-bit build")
>
> Signed-off-by: Rasesh Mody <Rasesh.Mody at cavium.com>
> ---
> drivers/net/qede/Makefile | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/qede/Makefile b/drivers/net/qede/Makefile
> index 39751e4..29b443d 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/qede/Makefile
> +++ b/drivers/net/qede/Makefile
> @@ -46,11 +46,11 @@ endif
> endif
>
> ifeq ($(CONFIG_RTE_TOOLCHAIN_GCC),y)
> -ifeq ($(shell gcc -Wno-unused-but-set-variable -Werror -E - < /dev/null >
> /dev/null 2>&1; echo $$?),0)
> +ifeq ($(shell test $(GCC_VERSION) -ge 44 && echo 1), 1)
> CFLAGS_BASE_DRIVER += -Wno-unused-but-set-variable
> endif
> CFLAGS_BASE_DRIVER += -Wno-missing-declarations
> -ifeq ($(shell gcc -Wno-maybe-uninitialized -Werror -E - < /dev/null >
> /dev/null 2>&1; echo $$?),0)
> +ifeq ($(shell test $(GCC_VERSION) -ge 46 && echo 1), 1)
> CFLAGS_BASE_DRIVER += -Wno-maybe-uninitialized
> endif
> CFLAGS_BASE_DRIVER += -Wno-strict-prototypes
Does this mean that less compiler checking is done or more?
It seems lots of drivers make the excuse:
"the base driver comes from another group and is known buggy but can't be
fixed"
That doesn't reflect well on the quality of the DPDK.
