linux-kernel - Re: Do you want warning quashing patches at this point in the cycle?

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Message-ID: <CAHk-=wj-ANpwDnAJ0HAdbwyti7Z6aBBJT6JEbkta9VjaF30Tcw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 4 Oct 2021 09:38:32 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:     Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@...ewreck.org>,
        Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>,
        Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@...istor.com>,
        Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@...merspace.com>,
        Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@...app.com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        v9fs-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org,
        "open list:NFS, SUNRPC, AND..." <linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
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        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Do you want warning quashing patches at this point in the cycle?

On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 3:13 AM David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> Do you want patches that quash warnings from W=1

For W=1? No.

The kerneldoc ones might be ok, but actual code fixes have
historically been problematic because W=1 sometimes warns for
perfectly good code (and then people "fix" it to not warn, and
introduce actual bugs).

           Linus