linux-kernel - Re: Overriding -Werror

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Date:	Tue, 19 Aug 2014 22:11:30 +0200
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>,
	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

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 06:15:07AM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 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)
In arch/sparc/ we have -Werror and this has never troubled us.
In fact more than once people had tried to provide sloppy code that
failed due to -Werror so it got fixed up front.

	Sam
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