On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Olof Johansson wrote: > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 12:00:41PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: > > Add an option, on by default, to build all code under arch/powerpc with > > -Werror, which causes gcc to treat warnings as errors. > > > > The intention is to make it harder for people to inadvertantly introduce > > errors in the arch/powerpc code. It needs to be configurable so that > > if a warning is introduced, people can easily work around it while it's > > being fixed. > > This looks useful at least for the automated builds to catch new warnings, > but do similar options exist on other architectures, x86 in particular? I > think a Cc to LKML of this could be useful. > > This is really only beneficial if various people build for powerpc often > enough. If major subsystem maintainers aren't going to hit the errors > it's more of a hinderance for PPC than a global benefit, right?
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