Re: [git pull] drm for 6.10-rc1

[Alex Deucher]

On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 4:42 AM Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 15 May 2024, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, 15 May 2024 at 16:17, Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> AMDGPU, I915 and XE all have !COMPILE_TEST on their variants
> >
> > Hmm.  It turns out that I didn't notice the AMDGPU one because my
> > Threadripper - that has AMDGPU enabled - I have actually turned off
> > EXPERT on, so it's hidden by that for me.
> >
> > But yes, both of those should be "depends on !WERROR" too.
>
> Fair enough. Honestly it just didn't occur to me.
>
> The main goal here was to ensure the drm subsystem does not have any
> build warnings, but without halting CI on any non-drm warnings that
> might occasionally creep in and that we can't fix as quickly.
>
> If there was a way to somehow limit WERROR by subdirectories, without
> config options, I'd love to ditch the config.

Right.  Same thing for amdgpu.  Our CI was often breaking due to
-WERROR in other subsystems or with compiler updates.  Maybe it's
better now.

Alex


>
> > Or maybe they should just go away entirely, and be subsumed by the
> > DRM_WERROR thing.
>
> For i915, this was the idea anyway, we just haven't gotten around to it
> yet.
>
>
> BR,
> Jani.
>
>
> --
> Jani Nikula, Intel