RE: [PATCH v2] x86/cpu: fix prototype warning

[David Laight]

From: Thomas Gleixner
> Sent: 08 November 2018 15:36
> On Thu, 8 Nov 2018, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > And frankly, I don't see why we should be fixing all those. So what if a
> > global function does't have a previous prototype declaration?!
> 
> Global function declarations must have a prototype definition, really.
> 
> Otherwise you can change the function signature and all callers which use
> the old unchanged prototype are hosed.

I bet there are at least double-figures of real bugs out there.

The next on the list should be -Wwriteable-strings.
Usually just needs a few 'const' sprinkled.

	David

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