linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: disabling -Wstringop-truncation

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Date:   Thu, 30 Aug 2018 18:17:01 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-next <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: disabling -Wstringop-truncation

On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 3:07 PM Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
>
> I am now mainly using gcc v8.2 for my builds and -Wstringop-truncation
> causes so many warnings that I am sure to miss others, so I have
> applied the below to my fixes tree until the noise reduces.

Applied.

If people want the warning with W=xyz, then this is still the correct
patch, and we should add a line to re-enable it in
scripts/Makefile.extrawarn.

             Linus