linux-kernel - Re: Overriding -Werror

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Message-ID: <87ppfwmxic.fsf@tassilo.jf.intel.com>
Date:	Tue, 19 Aug 2014 06:15:07 -0700
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Overriding -Werror

Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com> writes:
>
> 4. better ideas?

Just send patches to remove -Werror in all architectures
as a tree sweep (and anywhere else where someone misguided add it)

Having -Werror anywhere in a shipping release is just plainly a bug,
as it makes it often impossible to build on newer gcc versions.

-Andi

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