From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
Elizabeth Figura <zfigura@codeweavers.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>, Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
wine-devel@winehq.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
bpf@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] selftests: Fix problems seen when building with -Werror
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2025 08:27:54 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251204082754.66daa1c3@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251204161729.2448052-1-linux@roeck-us.net>
On Thu, 4 Dec 2025 08:17:14 -0800 Guenter Roeck wrote:
> This series fixes build errors observed when trying to build selftests
> with -Werror.
If your intention is to make -Werror the default please stop.
Defaulting WERROR to enabled is one of the silliest things we have done
in recent past.
People will try to use new compilers on a kernel after it has already
been released. Not being able to build the kernel because of some false
positive warning in another subsystem is so annoying :|
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-12-04 16:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-12-04 16:17 [PATCH 00/13] selftests: Fix problems seen when building with -Werror Guenter Roeck
2025-12-04 16:17 ` [PATCH 01/13] clone3: clone3_cap_checkpoint_restore: Fix build errors seen " Guenter Roeck
2025-12-04 16:17 ` [PATCH 02/13] selftests: ntsync: Fix build errors -seen " Guenter Roeck
2025-12-04 16:17 ` [PATCH 03/13] selftests/filesystems: fclog: Fix build errors seen " Guenter Roeck
2025-12-04 16:17 ` [PATCH 04/13] selftests/filesystems: file_stressor: Fix build error " Guenter Roeck
2025-12-04 16:17 ` [PATCH 05/13] selftests/filesystems: anon_inode_test: " Guenter Roeck
2025-12-04 16:17 ` [PATCH 06/13] selftest: af_unix: Support compilers without flex-array-member-not-at-end support Guenter Roeck
2025-12-04 17:40 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-12-04 17:58 ` Guenter Roeck
2025-12-04 16:17 ` [PATCH 07/13] selftest/futex: Comment out test_futex_mpol Guenter Roeck
2025-12-04 16:17 ` [PATCH 08/13] selftests: net: netlink-dumps: Avoid uninitialized variable error Guenter Roeck
2025-12-04 16:17 ` [PATCH 09/13] selftests/seccomp: Fix build error seen with -Werror Guenter Roeck
2025-12-04 16:17 ` [PATCH 10/13] selftests: net: Work around " Guenter Roeck
2025-12-04 16:30 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-12-04 17:21 ` Guenter Roeck
2025-12-04 16:17 ` [PATCH 11/13] selftests/fs/mount-notify: Fix build failure " Guenter Roeck
2025-12-04 16:17 ` [PATCH 12/13] selftests/fs/mount-notify-ns: Fix build failures " Guenter Roeck
2025-12-04 16:17 ` [PATCH 13/13] selftests: net: tfo: Fix build error " Guenter Roeck
2025-12-04 16:27 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2025-12-04 17:16 ` [PATCH 00/13] selftests: Fix problems seen when building " Guenter Roeck
2025-12-04 17:43 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-12-04 17:56 ` Guenter Roeck
2025-12-04 20:03 ` Kees Cook
2025-12-04 20:07 ` Guenter Roeck
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