Re: Overriding -Werror

[Andi Kleen]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 10:11:30PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 06:15:07AM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Brian Norris <computersforpeace@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > >
> > > 4. better ideas?
> > 
> > Just send patches to remove -Werror in all architectures
> > as a tree sweep (and anywhere else where someone misguided add it)
> In arch/sparc/ we have -Werror and this has never troubled us.
> In fact more than once people had tried to provide sloppy code that
> failed due to -Werror so it got fixed up front.

It's a major mistake to not support future gccs for released source.

-Andi

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