On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 05:19:43PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Sam Ravnborg <[email protected]>
> Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 01:34:35 +0100
>
> > On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 08:03:54PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > "David S. Miller" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > The deprecated warnings are so easy to filter out, so I don't think
> > > > noise is a good argument. I see them all the time too.
> > >
> > > That works for you and me. But how to train all those people who write
> > > warny patches?
> >
> > Would it work to use -Werror only on some parts of the kernel.
> > Thinking of teaching kbuild to recursively apply a flags to gcc.
> >
> > Then we could say that kernel/ should be warning free (to a start).
>
> Many ports already add -Werror to the CFLAGS via their
> arch/${ARCH}/* makefiles.
They only add it to EXTRA_CFLAGS for one specifig subdirectory.
cu
Adrian
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