Re: [PATCH] Enable '-Werror' by default for all kernel builds

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Sep 09 2021 - 12:52:10 EST


On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 10:59 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> While we're at it, with -Werror something like this is really futile:

Yeah, I'm thinking we could do

-Wno-error=cpp

to at least allow the cpp warnings to come through without being fatal.

Because while they can be annoying too, they are most definitely under
our direct control, so..

I didn't actually test that, but I think it should work.

That said, maybe they should just be removed. They might be better off
just as Kconfig rules, rather than as a "hey, you screwed up your
Kconfig" warning after the fact.

Linus