Re: [PATCH v3.1] kbuild: implement several W= levels

From: Michal Marek
Date: Thu Apr 28 2011 - 12:25:01 EST


On 28.4.2011 02:25, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:35:13 +0200, Borislav Petkov said:

If we do this inclusive, then W=2 dumps the, let's call it, level 1
_plus_ the new level 2 warnings, polluting the output with something
I've already seen, but only partially. And then I start to think, did
I see this one already, didn't I, which was it? By the time you enable
W=3, the output becomes pretty useless. For example, W=3 generates 190+
MB logfile here only with level 3 warnings. Now imagine all 3 levels
combined.

If each level is averaging 10x the previous level, then all 3 levels will only be 11%
bigger, or 211MB.

You *really* want to get *all* the warnings - quite often, you'll be looking
at a set of 15 or 20 level-3 warnings. And if you had the Level-2's in there as
well, you'd immediately realize that the single level-2 was the real root-cause
of all the cascating warnings.

How about W=12 for level 1 and 2 warnings and W=123 for all levels?

Michal
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