On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 02:39:17PM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 04:53:51PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>
> > How often are new W=1 flags added? My patch exported
> > KBUILD_CFLAGS_WARN1. How about instead we export
> > KBUILD_CFLAGS_WARN1_20200920. A subsystem can then sign up to being
> > W=1 clean as for the 20200920 definition of W=1.
>
> I think this is a reasonable idea.
>
> I'm hitting exactly the issue this series is trying to solve, Lee
> invested a lot of effort to make drivers/infiniband/ W=1 clean, but
> as maintainer I can't sustain this since there is no easy way to have
> a warning free compile and get all extra warnings. Also all my
> submitters are not running with W=1
>
> I need kbuild to get everyone on the same page to be able to sustain
> the warning clean up. We've already had a regression and it has only
> been a few weeks :(
>
> Andrew, would you consider respinning this series in the above form?
Arnd has worked on the core parts. But i lost track of if his patches
got merged.
Andrew
