On Tue, Apr 9, 2024, at 18:25, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 04, 2024 at 05:16:54PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>
> I have not done any LLVM builds with this change but if this is going to
> be in -next for a little bit, we should be able to get any regressions
> handled quickly.
>
> I am in favor of more warnings but I am a little nervous this will make
> compiler upgrades (or tracking their mainline) even more difficult. I do
> not have a feeling for how often warnings are added to -Wall and -Wextra
> so this may be unfounded but the kernel's -Werror use complicates this
> in my opinion. I can engage with the clang folks to try and be given a
> heads up when a warning is going to be added to -Wextra, it would be
> good to have someone do something similar for GCC, so that those
> upgrades do not cause something like this change to be rolled back.
My impression is that most new warnings get added to -Wall rather than
-Wextra anyway. If they are added to -Wextra, it's still easy enough
to turn them off individually unless W=1 is set.
> It is easy enough to back out of this if necessary though, so:
>
> Acked-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks!
Arnd
