diff --git a/pkg/nimble/Makefile b/pkg/nimble/Makefile
index f53cc36c43a2272d78673ec851a64ca6938d936d..27899da60c721244022754704ad276f0be281981 100644
--- a/pkg/nimble/Makefile
+++ b/pkg/nimble/Makefile
@@ -6,14 +6,17 @@ PKG_LICENSE = Apache-2.0
 TDIR = $(RIOTPKG)/$(PKG_NAME)
 PDIR = $(PKG_BUILDDIR)
 
-# As of now, NimBLE does not build without warnings for -Wextra, so we disable
-# that flag for this package. Will hopefully be fixed some time in the future.
+# NimBLE is not optimized for building with all (extra) warnings enabled. So for
+# now, we disable a number of selected compiler warnings when building NimBLE.
 CFLAGS += -Wno-extra
+ifeq (llvm,$(TOOLCHAIN))
 # the static function `ble_ll_adv_active_chanset_is_sec()` in
 # `nimble/controller/src/ble_ll_adv.c` isn't used in our compilation path, so
 # tell LLVM/clang not to be so pedantic with this.
-ifeq (llvm,$(TOOLCHAIN))
   CFLAGS += -Wno-unused-function
+  CFLAGS += -Wno-sometimes-uninitialized
+else
+  CFLAGS += -Wno-unused-but-set-variable
 endif
 
 .PHONY: all