On Mon, 2014-10-06 at 17:56 -0400, David Miller wrote: > From: Joe Perches <j...@perches.com> > Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 14:51:38 -0700 > > > Reduce noise when compiling W=1. [] > BTW, this patch reminds me that if people think there are > subdirectories where we can turn on things like -Werror in the > networking I would be very happy to apply such patches. [] > Things like net/core/ for example should be doable for sure.
I don't have any significant opposition to -Werror, but I think there are real arguments _against_ using -Werror. I think the primary one is new compiler versions have a tendency to add new warnings for various things that can unnecessarily and unpredictably break the build. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
