On Sun, 27 Mar 2022 18:42:59 +0200 Andrew Lunn wrote: > > What level of testing is expected before I submit my change? > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > -If your changes are against ``net-next``, the expectation is that you > > -have tested by layering your changes on top of ``net-next``. Ideally > > -you will have done run-time testing specific to your change, but at a > > -minimum, your changes should survive an ``allyesconfig`` and an > > -``allmodconfig`` build without new warnings or failures. > > +At the very minimum your changes must survive an ``allyesconfig`` and an > > +``allmodconfig`` build with ``W=1`` set without new warnings or failures. > > Doesn't the patchwork buildbot also have C=1 ? You have been pointing > out failures for C=1, so it probably should be documented here. We have a number of cases where C=1 failures are false positives. Sparse is not getting much love these days, unfortunately. I didn't want to force people to bend over backwards to fix stuff we can let fly upstream. I can't think of a case where W=1 was okay.