Re: [GIT PULL] locking changes for v5.18

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 10:29:21AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 4:42 AM Andy Shevchenko
> <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > What about old one? I have already complained in the early discussion that
> > `make W=1 ...` is broken by this change.
> 
> So that is REALLY D*MN EASY TO FIX.
> 
> If you use W=1, and don't want WERROR, then don't *do* that then.
> 
> End of story.
> 
> But that's on _you_. Not on the build system. If you use W=1 and
> WERROR together, you get exactly what you asked for. It might even be
> what you wanted, if you want to go through the warnings/errors as you
> encounter them, instead of building everything.
> 
> And that's why I refuse to take the completely broken "strip out one
> or the other automatically" change.
> 
> It's a perfectly valid combination to enable both.
> 
> But more importantly, -Werror is more important than W=1. So if
> anything should be disabled, it's W=1.
> 
> Side note: that would be trivial to just have in the Kconfig files if
> W=1 was just a config option.
> 
> Do something like
> 
>      config EXTRA_ERRORS
>          int "Add extra compiler errors" if EXPERT
>          depends on !WERROR
>          range 0-2
>          default 0
> 
> but note again: WERROR should be the thing that controls this and
> should be on by default, not the other way around.
> 
> If you want EXTRA_ERRORS, you should not only be CONFIG_EXPERT, you
> should also have to manually disable WERROR that *normal* people
> should have on by default.

I have got your point, thanks!

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko