From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
To: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
ksummit@lists.linux.dev, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [MAINTAINERS/KERNEL SUMMIT] Trust and maintenance of file systems
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2023 14:23:00 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bd1fb81a-6bb7-4ab4-9f8c-55307f3e9590@kadam.mountain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230907110409.GH19790@gate.crashing.org>
On Thu, Sep 07, 2023 at 06:04:09AM -0500, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 07, 2023 at 12:48:25PM +0300, Dan Carpenter via Gcc-patches wrote:
> > I started to hunt
> > down all the Makefile which add a -Werror but there are a lot and
> > eventually I got bored and gave up.
>
> I have a patch stack for that, since 2014 or so. I build Linux with
> unreleased GCC versions all the time, so pretty much any new warning is
> fatal if you unwisely use -Werror.
>
> > Someone should patch GCC so there it checks an environment variable to
> > ignore -Werror. Somethine like this?
>
> No. You should patch your program, instead.
There are 2930 Makefiles in the kernel source.
> One easy way is to add a
> -Wno-error at the end of your command lines. Or even just -w if you
> want or need a bigger hammer.
I tried that. Some of the Makefiles check an environemnt variable as
well if you want to turn off -Werror. It's not a complete solution at
all. I have no idea what a complete solution looks like because I gave
up.
>
> Or nicer, put it all in Kconfig, like powerpc already has for example.
> There is a CONFIG_WERROR as well, so maybe use that in all places?
That's a good idea but I'm trying to compile old kernels and not the
current kernel.
regards,
dan carpenter
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2023-09-07 9:48 ` Dan Carpenter
2023-09-07 11:04 ` Segher Boessenkool
2023-09-07 11:22 ` Steven Rostedt
2023-09-07 12:24 ` Segher Boessenkool
2023-09-07 11:23 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2023-09-07 12:30 ` Segher Boessenkool
2023-09-12 9:50 ` Richard Biener
2023-10-23 5:19 ` Eric Gallager
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