Re: [RFC PATCH] kbuild: implement several W= levels

Joe Perches
2011-04-21T21:58:31Z

On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 23:39 +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> Building a kernel with "make W=1" produce far too much noise
> to be usefull.
> Divide the warning options in three groups:
> W=1 - usefull warning options
> W=2 - noisy but semi usefull warnign options
> W=3 - almost pure noise options
> +warning-1 := -Wextra
[]
> +warning-2 += -Waggregate-return

This is a different form for this first warning-2 declaration
than the first warning-1 declaration.

Maybe this should be := instead?

Maybe there's a way to do something akin to

warning_type(level, option)

So these become

warning_type(1, extra)
warning_type(2, aggregate-return)

etc.