linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] More Kbuild updates for v5.19-rc1

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Message-ID: <CAK7LNATmd0bigp7HQ4fTzHw5ugZMkSb3UXG7L4fxpGbqkRKESA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 5 Jun 2022 06:33:56 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] More Kbuild updates for v5.19-rc1

On Sun, Jun 5, 2022 at 5:25 AM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 3, 2022 at 9:42 AM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> >  - Fix modpost to detect EXPORT_SYMBOL marked as __init or__exit
> >    (This uncovered a couple of potential issues of exported symbols)
>
> I pulled, and then unpulled again, since this introduces new warnings.
>
> If you introduce new checks, you fix what it checks.
>
> And if the warnings didn't get sorted out, then it wasn't ready to be merged.
>
> There's a  good *reason* I require a clean build: non-clean builds
> just mean that people will ignore new warnings because they think they
> are the old ones that they have already seen.
>
> So no, it is *NOT* ok to introduce new warnings and think "people will
> fix these up because now there are warnings about it".
>
> Quite the reverse. People not only *won't* fix things up, and it will
> just hide new warnings from *other* things instead.
>
>                    Linus


OK, I will drop the offending commit
and send v2.


-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada