From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751830AbaHSXoE (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2014 19:44:04 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([193.170.194.197]:48364 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751478AbaHSXoC (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2014 19:44:02 -0400 Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 01:43:59 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: Sam Ravnborg Cc: Andi Kleen , Brian Norris , Linux Kernel , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, Ralf Baechle , Artem Bityutskiy Subject: Re: Overriding -Werror Message-ID: <20140819234359.GJ4120@two.firstfloor.org> References: <20140814222119.GD18411@ld-irv-0074> <87ppfwmxic.fsf@tassilo.jf.intel.com> <20140819201129.GA24217@ravnborg.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140819201129.GA24217@ravnborg.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 10:11:30PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 06:15:07AM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Brian Norris writes: > > > > > > 4. better ideas? > > > > Just send patches to remove -Werror in all architectures > > as a tree sweep (and anywhere else where someone misguided add it) > In arch/sparc/ we have -Werror and this has never troubled us. > In fact more than once people had tried to provide sloppy code that > failed due to -Werror so it got fixed up front. It's a major mistake to not support future gccs for released source. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.