Re: WTF: patch "[PATCH] kvm: x86: fix a compile warning" was seriously submitted to be applied to the 4.16-stable tree?

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On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 04:10:41PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 17/04/2018 14:54, Greg KH wrote:
> >> There are people compiling with -Werror.  But really, I sometimes wonder
> >> if stable-kernel-rules.rst should be perused in the same way as the GNU
> >> coding standards].  Most patches that are "auto-selected" these days are
> >> (at least for KVM) exactly the "This could be a problem..." type of thing
> >> that is singled out as _not_ stable-worthy.
> > Are you sure -Werror shows this?  And it's not just a sparse "warning"?
> 
> This should be -Wimplicit, which is enabled by -Wall.

ah, yet-another-W-option that should never be enabled :)

thanks,

greg k-h



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