This -Wsign-compare compiler warning can be very noisy and most of the suggested conversions are unnecessary. Make the warning W=3 so it's described under the "can most likely be ignored" block. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- On Tue, 2020-07-21 at 14:32 -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > On Tue, 2020-07-21 at 19:06 +0000, Corentin Labbe wrote: > > This patch fixes the warning: > > warning: comparison of integer expressions of different signedness: 'int' and 'long unsigned int' [-Wsign-compare] > > I think these do not really need conversion. > Are these useful compiler warnings ? Perhaps move the warning from W=2 to W=3 so it's described as "can most likely be ignored" scripts/Makefile.extrawarn | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn index 62c275685b75..95e4cdb94fe9 100644 --- a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn +++ b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn @@ -66,7 +66,6 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wnested-externs KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wshadow KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -Wlogical-op) KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wmissing-field-initializers -KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wsign-compare KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wtype-limits KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -Wmaybe-uninitialized) KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -Wunused-macros) @@ -87,6 +86,7 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wpacked KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wpadded KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wpointer-arith KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wredundant-decls +KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wsign-compare KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wswitch-default KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -Wpacked-bitfield-compat)
