Re: [patch 10/32] linux/bits.h: fix unsigned less than zero warnings

[Kees Cook]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 04:43:36PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 4:09 PM Andy Shevchenko
> <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 5:03 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > It would work for me if it had been
> > a) documented (I didn't check if it had been already done, though);
> > b) understood by all CIs in the same way (see a) as well :-).
> 
> I checked the 'make help' output, which describes them as
> 
> make W=n   [targets] Enable extra build checks, n=1,2,3 where
>    1: warnings which may be relevant and do not occur too often
>    2: warnings which occur quite often but may still be relevant
>    3: more obscure warnings, can most likely be ignored
>    Multiple levels can be combined with W=12 or W=123
> 
> which is less specific than the interpretation I had in mind but
> I think still fits a).

How about tweaking this as:

make W=n   [targets] Enable extra build checks, n=1,2,3 where
   1: warnings which may be relevant and do not occur too often
      and can normally be fixed in code. (Reasonable for CIs to
      use without generating too much spam.)
   2: warnings which occur quite often but may still be relevant
      to developers looking for ways to improve compilers or
      looking for very special cases. (Not usually a good idea
      for automated systems.)
   3: more obscure warnings, can most likely be ignored but have
      value to some very narrow areas of code/compiler analysis.
      Very noisy!



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Kees Cook