netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/2] Makefile.extrawarn: Add symbol for W=1 warnings for today

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Date:   Mon, 5 Oct 2020 23:08:08 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Rohit Maheshwari <rohitm@...lsio.com>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/2] Makefile.extrawarn: Add symbol for W=1
 warnings for today

> It depends a lot on what portion of the kernel gets enabled for W=1.
> 
> As long as it's only drivers that are actively maintained, and they
> make up a fairly small portion of all code, it should not be a problem
> to find someone to fix useful warnings.

Well, drivers/net/ethernet is around 1.5M LOC. The tree as a whole is
just short of 23M LOC. So i guess that is a small portion of all the
code.

	Andrew