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Message-Id: <20231129151030.24b807f1d2b43be301a533b7@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Wed, 29 Nov 2023 15:10:30 -0800
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     "Stephen Rothwell" <sfr@...hwell.id.au>,
        linux-next <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Thomas Bogendoerfer" <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        sparclinux@...r.kernel.org, linux-mips@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-next: lots of errors/warnings from the
 -Werror=missing-prototypes addition

On Wed, 29 Nov 2023 23:51:04 +0100 "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...db.de> wrote:

> I did all my testing with CONFIG_WERROR force-enabled, so
> the bit I missed here is that at least three architectures
> that are missing fixes also set -Werror: mips, sparc and alpha.
> 
> How about adding a patch to no longer force -Werror for
> these?

These architectures are doing it wrong, aren't they?  They should be
using the CONFIG_WERROR infrastructure rather than hard-coding it?  If
so then sure, a standalone patch to clean that up sounds sounds
appropriate.  I guess it should precede "Makefile.extrawarn: turn on
missing-prototypes globally".

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