From: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org>
To: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>,
Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers+lkml@gmail.com>,
Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>,
Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>,
Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>,
Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>,
Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>,
David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>,
Simona Vetter <simona@ffwll.ch>, Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>,
David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, llvm@lists.linux.dev,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org,
Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] kbuild: remove gcc's -Wtype-limits
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2025 19:50:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251218-remove_wtype-limits-v1-0-735417536787@kernel.org> (raw)
I often read on the mailing list people saying "who cares about W=2
builds anyway?". At least I do. Not that I want to fix all of them,
but on some occasions, such as new driver submissions, I have often
found a couple valid diagnostics in the W=2 output.
That said, the annoying thing is that W=2 is heavily polluted by one
warning: -Wtype-limits. Try a gcc W=2 build on any file and see the
results for yourself. I suspect this to be the reason why so few
people are using W=2.
This series removes gcc's -Wtype-limits in an attempt to make W=2 more
useful. Those who do not use W=2 can continue to not use it if they
want. Those who, like me, use it form time to time will get an
improved experience from the reduced spam.
Extra details on statistics, past attempts and -Wtype-limits
alternatives are given in the first patch description.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org>
---
Vincent Mailhol (2):
kbuild: remove gcc's -Wtype-limits
kbuild: cleanup local -Wno-type-limits exceptions
drivers/gpu/drm/Makefile | 1 -
fs/btrfs/Makefile | 1 -
scripts/Makefile.warn | 4 +++-
3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: 3e7f562e20ee87a25e104ef4fce557d39d62fa85
change-id: 20251205-remove_wtype-limits-c77eb46d09c2
Best regards,
--
Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org>
next reply other threads:[~2025-12-18 18:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-12-18 18:50 Vincent Mailhol [this message]
2025-12-18 18:50 ` [PATCH 1/2] kbuild: remove gcc's -Wtype-limits Vincent Mailhol
2025-12-18 19:36 ` Dan Carpenter
2025-12-18 22:31 ` Vincent Mailhol
2025-12-19 6:56 ` Dan Carpenter
2025-12-19 22:21 ` Vincent Mailhol
2025-12-18 18:50 ` [PATCH 2/2] kbuild: cleanup local -Wno-type-limits exceptions Vincent Mailhol
2025-12-18 20:24 ` David Sterba
2025-12-18 20:26 ` [PATCH 0/2] kbuild: remove gcc's -Wtype-limits David Laight
2025-12-18 20:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2025-12-18 22:06 ` David Laight
2025-12-18 22:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2025-12-19 7:08 ` Dan Carpenter
2025-12-19 7:33 ` Nicolas Schier
2025-12-19 22:06 ` Vincent Mailhol
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