On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 07:50:42PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Building a kernel with "make W=1" produce far too much noise > to be usefull. > > Divide the warning options in three groups: > > W=1 - warnings that may be relevant and does not occur too often > W=2 - warnings that occur quite often but may still be relevant > W=3 - the more obscure warnings, can most likely be ignored > > When building init/ on my box the levels produces: > > W=1 - 46 warnings > W=2 - 863 warnings > W=3 - 6496 warnings > > Many warnings occur from .h files so fixing one file may have a nice > effect on the total number of warnings. > > With these changes I am actually tempted to try W=1 now and then. > Previously there were just too much noise. > > Borislav: > > - make the W= levels exclusive I do not see the point in this really. This is not what most people would expect. When you ask for more you get more - not something else. We see it with verbose levels where -vv give more output than -v etc. Anyway - the important thing is to keep the relevant warnings at W=1 level. Which is independendt of this change. So consider the input and decide - I do not want to make a fuzz about it. Sam -- 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
