Re: [PATCH tip v5 2/5] kbuild: Add option to turn incompatible pointer check into error

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Mon, 30 Nov 2015, Daniel Wagner wrote:
>  
> +ifdef CONFIG_ENABLE_ERR_TYPE_CHECK
> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types)
> +endif

I don't see a value for making this configurable. If the compiler supports it,
we should use it. It already found a bug, so why would we make that optional?

Thanks,

        tglx