Re: [PATCH (set 1) 00/20] Rid W=1 warnings from GPU

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On Thu, 24 Aug 2023, Lee Jones wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Aug 2023, Jani Nikula wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 24 Aug 2023, Lee Jones <lee@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > This set is part of a larger effort attempting to clean-up W=1
> > > kernel builds, which are currently overwhelmingly riddled with
> > > niggly little warnings.
> > 
> > The next question is, how do we keep it W=1 clean going forward?
> 
> My plan was to fix them all, then move each warning to W=0.

Some history:

- Starting with v5.8-rc1:       18867
- 2020-07-01:                   18089
- 2020-07-07:                   17288
- 2020-07-17:                   15762
- 2020-07-20:                   15724
- 2020-07-23:                   15116
- 2020-08-12:                   15184
- 2020-10-19:                   10909
- 2020-11-04:                    9385
- 2021-01-04:                    5478
- 2021-01-12                     4749
- 2021-01-29                     4911
- 2021-04-07                     3594
- 2021-05-20                     2938
- 2021-07-01                     2587
- 2023-02-10                     2587
- 2023-08-22                     1650

> Arnd recently submitted a set doing just that for a bunch of them.
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230811140327.3754597-1-arnd@xxxxxxxxxx/
> 
> I like to think a bunch of this is built on top of my previous efforts.
> 
> GPU is a particularly tricky though - the warnings seem to come in faster
> than I can squash them.  Maybe the maintainers can find a way to test
> new patches on merge?
> 
> > Most people don't use W=1 because it's too noisy, so it's a bit of a
> > catch-22.
> > 
> > In i915, we enable a lot of W=1 warnings using subdir-ccflags-y in our
> > Makefile. For CI/developer use we also enable kernel-doc warnings by
> > default.
> > 
> > Should we start enabling some of those warning flags in drm/Makefile to
> > to keep the entire subsystem warning free?
> 
> That would we awesome!  We'd just need buy-in.

-- 
Lee Jones [李琼斯]



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