On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 06:15:07AM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote: > Brian Norris <computersforpeace@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > > 4. better ideas? > > Just send patches to remove -Werror in all architectures > as a tree sweep (and anywhere else where someone misguided add it) I cited at least one example in which this was attempted but rejected. (Or at least, it was semi-deliberately stalled.) > Having -Werror anywhere in a shipping release is just plainly a bug, > as it makes it often impossible to build on newer gcc versions. I also feel it is misguided, for other reasons. But there are at least a few who seem to disagree. They seem to feel it is important/necessary for enforcing good practices during development. I'm not sure how to bridge the disagreement, other than to provide workarounds for disabling -Werror. I could try sending -Werror removal patches, but I'm not confident that will go over well. Brian -- 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
