On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 09:45:04AM -0500, Michal Marek wrote: > On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 09:35:29AM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > Add a 'W=1' Makefile switch which adds additional checking per build > > object. > > > > The idea behind this option is targeted at developers who, in the > > process of writing their code, want to do the occasional > > > > make W=1 [target.o] > > > > and let gcc do more extensive code checking for them. Then, they > > could eyeball the output for valid gcc warnings about various > > bugs/discrepancies which are not reported during the normal build > > process. > > > > For more background information and a use case, read through this > > thread: http://marc.info/?l=kernel-janitors&m=129802065918147&w=2 > > > > -v5: Document internal kbuild variable which is introduced by this. > > Simplify assignment. > > Thanks, applied to kbuild-2.6.git#packaging. If someone comes up with a > good selection of warnings for W=1 and W=2, we can change it later. Yeah, I was going to do that but am terribly busy at the moment. I'll do an initial proposal against your kbuild branch when I get a chance. Thanks. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Advanced Micro Devices GmbH Einsteinring 24, 85609 Dornach General Managers: Alberto Bozzo, Andrew Bowd Registration: Dornach, Gemeinde Aschheim, Landkreis Muenchen Registergericht Muenchen, HRB Nr. 43632 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
