Re: [PATCH (set 1) 00/20] Rid W=1 warnings from GPU

[Maxime Ripard]

On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 12:03:20PM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Aug 2023, Lee Jones <lee@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > This set is part of a larger effort attempting to clean-up W=1
> > kernel builds, which are currently overwhelmingly riddled with
> > niggly little warnings.
> 
> The next question is, how do we keep it W=1 clean going forward?
> 
> Most people don't use W=1 because it's too noisy, so it's a bit of a
> catch-22.
> 
> In i915, we enable a lot of W=1 warnings using subdir-ccflags-y in our
> Makefile. For CI/developer use we also enable kernel-doc warnings by
> default.
> 
> Should we start enabling some of those warning flags in drm/Makefile to
> to keep the entire subsystem warning free?

I think that's a good idea. At least the documentation fixes I just
merged could have been easily caught before submission.

Maxime

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