Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [PATCH v2 0/3] Maintainer Entry Profiles

Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-09-13T13:55:06Z

Em Fri, 13 Sep 2019 08:56:30 -0400
Matthew Wilcox <willy6545@gmail.com> escreveu:

> It's easy enough to move the kernel-doc warnings out from under W=1. I only
> out them there to avoid overwhelming us with new warnings. If they're
> mostly fixed now, let's make checking them the default.

Didn't try doing it kernelwide, but for media we do use W=1 by default,
on our CI instance.

There's a few warnings at EDAC, but they all seem easy enough to be
fixed.

So, from my side, I'm all to make W=1 default.

Regards,
Mauro

>
> On Thu., Sep. 12, 2019, 16:01 Bart Van Assche, <bvanassche@acm.org> wrote:
>
> > On 9/12/19 8:34 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2019-09-12 at 14:31 +0100, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > >> On 9/11/19 5:40 PM, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> > >>> * The patch must compile without warnings (make C=1
> > CF="-D__CHECK_ENDIAN__")
> > >>> and does not incur any zeroday test robot complaints.
> > >>
> > >> How about adding W=1 to that make command?
> > >
> > > That's rather too compiler version dependent and new
> > > warnings frequently get introduced by new compiler versions.
> >
> > I've never observed this myself. If a new compiler warning is added to
> > gcc and if it produces warnings that are not useful for kernel code
> > usually Linus or someone else is quick to suppress that warning.
> >
> > Another argument in favor of W=1 is that the formatting of kernel-doc
> > headers is checked only if W=1 is passed to make.
> >
> > Bart.
> >
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Thanks,
Mauro