linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Revert "drm/i915: Force clean compilation with -Werror"

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Message-ID: <20150526082026.GG12971@phenom.ffwll.local>
Date:	Tue, 26 May 2015 10:20:26 +0200
From:	Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>
To:	Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
	Intel Graphics Development <intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...el.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "drm/i915: Force clean compilation with -Werror"

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 08:57:13AM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 07:47:22AM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > This reverts commit 118182e9d7d5afa0c7c10f568afb46ab78b462e9.
> > 
> > It's causing too much trouble when compile-testing for non-i915 folks.
> 
> What's the argument against using COMPILE_TEST as a proxy for detecting
> all(yes|mod)config as in Damien's patch?

I also thought about random users bisecting who'll then also might trip
over this. Figure that overall the benefit isn't good enough given the
trouble this seems to have caused immediately. 0-day is pretty fast at
screaming around about new compiler warnings anyway, for the cases where I
miss them.
-Daniel
-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch
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