Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] Makefile.extrawarn: Turn off -Werror when extra warnings are enabled

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Fri Mar 25 2022 - 13:29:36 EST


On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 6:13 AM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> +#
> +# Turn off -Werror when extra warnings are enabled
> +#
> +ifneq ($(KBUILD_EXTRA_WARN),)
> + KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-error
> +endif

NAK.

If you enabled CONFIG_WERROR, then you get CONFIG_WERROR.

If you enabled W=1, then you get extra warnings.

If you enabled both, then you get extra warnings and they are errors.

This patch is just stupid.

Linus