Re: [GIT PULL] fbdev fixes for 4.9
From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Nov 15 2016 - 11:31:05 EST
On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 3:40 AM, Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I did test compile, and I would have noticed errors but I missed the warnings
> (I blame the flu...). I need to improve my testing methods, but I couldn't find
> a way to add -Werror to kernel builds. I guess I should just always capture the
> warnings and errors to a file, and check that after the build.
>
> How do you test build?
I basically do just an allmodconfig build, but I do it with
make -j16 > ../make-output
so that any warnings are very obvious (because stdout goes elsewhere).
Linus