[PATCH 00/21] [Set 2] Rid W=1 warnings from Clock

Stephen Boyd sboyd at kernel.org
Sat Feb 13 09:05:45 AEDT 2021


Quoting Lee Jones (2021-02-12 13:26:30)
> On Fri, 12 Feb 2021, Lee Jones wrote:
> 
> > The alternative is to not worry about it and review the slow drip of
> > fixes that will occur as a result.  The issues I just fixed were built
> > up over years.  They won't get to that level again.
> > 
> > In my mind contributors should be compiling their submissions with W=1
> > enabled by default.  I'm fairly sure the auto-builders do this now.

That's good.

> > 
> > Once W=1 warnings are down to an acceptable level in the kernel as a
> > whole, we can provide some guidance in SubmittingPatches (or similar)
> > on how to enable them (hint: you add "W=1" on the compile line).
> > 
> > Enabling W=1 in the default build will only serve to annoy Linus IMHO.
> > If he wants them to be enabled by default, they wouldn't be W=1 in the
> > first place, they'd be W=0 which *is* the default build.
> 
> Just to add real quick - my advice is to enable them for yourself and
> send back any issues along with your normal review.  A W=1 issue is no
> different to a semantic or coding style one.
> 

I'd like to enable it for only files under drivers/clk/ but it doesn't
seem to work. I'm not asking to enable it at the toplevel Makefile. I'm
asking to enable it for drivers/clk/ so nobody has to think about it now
that you've done the hard work of getting the numbers in this directory
down to zero or close to zero.


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