linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] Adds -Wshadow=local on KBUILD

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Date:   Thu, 18 Oct 2018 11:16:07 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Leonardo Bras <leobras.c@...il.com>
Cc:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        lkcamp@...ts.libreplanetbr.org,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy6545@...il.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Adds -Wshadow=local on KBUILD_HOSTCFLAGS

On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 09:40:53PM -0300, Leonardo Bras wrote:
> The idea was to put it as default and fix all the shadowing warnings.
> What do you think?  I am open to suggestions.

That's Masahiro's call. In the rest of the kernel, those warnings are behind
the W=2 switch - i.e., not enabled by default.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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