On Sun, 8 May 2022, I wrote: > > That suggests to me that we need a "bool CONFIG_WARINGS_INTO_ERRORS" to > control -Werror, which could be disabled for .config files (like make > allmodconfig) where it is not helping. > I just noticed that we already have CONFIG_WERROR. So perhaps something like this would help. diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index ddcbefe535e9..765d83fb148e 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -150,6 +150,8 @@ config WERROR However, if you have a new (or very old) compiler with odd and unusual warnings, or you have some architecture with problems, + or if you are using a compiler that doesn't happen to interpret + the C standards in quite the same way as some other compilers, you may need to disable this config option in order to successfully build the kernel.
