Re: [PATCH 00/13] selftests: Fix problems seen when building with -Werror

From: Jakub Kicinski

Date: Thu Dec 04 2025 - 11:27:56 EST


On Thu, 4 Dec 2025 08:17:14 -0800 Guenter Roeck wrote:
> This series fixes build errors observed when trying to build selftests
> with -Werror.

If your intention is to make -Werror the default please stop.
Defaulting WERROR to enabled is one of the silliest things we have done
in recent past.

People will try to use new compilers on a kernel after it has already
been released. Not being able to build the kernel because of some false
positive warning in another subsystem is so annoying :|