Re: kbuild - introduce support for subdir-ccflags-y

[Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>]

On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 02:51:59PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> The typical use cases are an architecture or a subsystem that
> decide to cover all files with -Werror.
> Today alpha, mips and sparc uses -Werror in almost all their
> Makefile - with subdir-ccflag-y it is now simpler to do so
> as only the top-level directories needs to be covered.

Hmm, this won't make sense for ARM.  We have things like #warning and
deprecated functions in machine specific headers, and adding -Werror
to the whole of arch/arm/ will result in these causing builds to fail.

Adding it just for boot,common,kernel,lib,mm,nwfpe,oprofile,vfp (iow
everything except the mach-* and plat-* directories) would make sense
though.

> The feature is added because the x86 guys are planning
> to (conditionally) cover all of arch/x86/ with -Werrror
> and adding this statement in each single Makefile
> was *the wrong way* to do so.

I think that's the way we're going to _have_ to do it on ARM.

-- 
Russell King
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