kbuild: Add a comment above -Wno-gnu

Whenever a warning is disabled, it is helpful for future travelers to
understand why the warning is disabled and why it is acceptable to do
so. Add a comment for -Wno-gnu so that people understand why it is
disabled.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
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Nathan Chancellor 2021-08-16 13:20:55 -07:00 committed by Masahiro Yamada
parent a312b60d6c
commit 5c6ae0efca

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@ -782,6 +782,7 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(stackp-flags-y)
ifdef CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG
KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += -Qunused-arguments
# The kernel builds with '-std=gnu89' so use of GNU extensions is acceptable.
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-gnu
# CLANG uses a _MergedGlobals as optimization, but this breaks modpost, as the
# source of a reference will be _MergedGlobals and not on of the whitelisted names.