Re: [PATCH -v4] kbuild: Add extra gcc checks

Américo Wang
2011-03-01T13:21:48Z

On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 12:35:00PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>On Monday 28 February 2011, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>> My intention was not to have multiple levels of warnings because then
>> you have to go and enable the different levels and have to remember
>> which level you used last, etc, etc.
>
>I wasn't suggesting more than two, so the two would have very distinct
>definitions:
>
>W=1: Warnings that we would like to fix all over the tree, patches to
> remove these are always welcome and you can build the entire kernel
> with it. Once they are all fixed, we can make the warnings the default.
>
>W=2: Warnings that we know we don't always want to fix, meant for what
> you describe here -- you build a single file and decide what to
> do based on common sense.
>

Right, this makes sense. Borislav, could you implement this?

Thanks.