linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] Makefile.extrawarn: Turn off -Werror when extra warnings are enabled

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Date:   Fri, 25 Mar 2022 10:20:15 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
Cc:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] Makefile.extrawarn: Turn off -Werror when extra
 warnings are enabled

On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 7:35 AM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org> wrote:
> WERROR should not be enabled for regular builds.

No.

WERROR should be on for regular builds.

It's W=1 that is questionable. It enables warnings that are often
false positives, and if you use W=1 (and particularly W=2) then that's
_your_ problem.

W=1 is most definitely not "regular builds". It's only for people who
want to deal with crazy compiler warnings.

I want WERROR on as widely as possible, because I'm really sick and
tired of developers not noticing when they add warnings because they
did a "regular build"

Stop this idiocy where you think warnings are acceptable.

                Linus