From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "Enable '-Werror' by default for all kernel builds"
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2021 12:02:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210913100230.GB11752@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YT8d5a6ZVW7JlsRl@kroah.com>
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Hi!
> > Do we really want developers treat warnings as errors? When the code
> > is okay but some random version of gcc dislikes it...
> >
> > Plus, there's question of stable. We already get ton of churn there
> > ("this fixes random warning"). WERROR will only encourage that...
>
> I will not be backporting this patch to older stable kernels, but I
> _want_ to see stable builds build with no warnings. When we add
> warnings, they are almost always things we need to fix up properly.
Well, everyone _wants_ to see clean builds... unless the price is too
high.
> Over time, I have worked to reduce the number of build warnings in older
> stable kernels. For newer versions of gcc, sometimes that is
> impossible, but we are close...
You clearly can't backport this patch, but for 5.16-stable, you'll
have it in, and now warnings are same as errors... and I don't believe
that's good idea for stable.
Best regards,
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-13 10:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-07 18:38 [PATCH] Revert "Enable '-Werror' by default for all kernel builds" Nick Desaulniers
2021-09-07 18:55 ` Fāng-ruì Sòng
2021-09-07 19:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-07 20:30 ` Nick Desaulniers
2021-09-07 22:14 ` Marco Elver
2021-09-07 22:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-07 22:33 ` Randy Dunlap
2021-09-13 9:32 ` Pavel Machek
2021-09-13 9:46 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-09-13 10:02 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2021-09-13 10:51 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-09-20 16:26 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-09-13 9:50 ` Florian Weimer
2021-09-13 17:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-13 14:33 ` Guenter Roeck
2021-09-07 22:28 ` Guenter Roeck
2021-09-07 22:42 ` Segher Boessenkool
2021-09-07 22:55 ` Mark Brown
2021-09-07 23:00 ` Nathan Chancellor
2021-09-07 23:35 ` Mark Brown
2021-09-08 16:12 ` Steven Rostedt
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