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From:   Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Date:   Mon, 27 Jul 2020 13:55:25 +0900
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile.extrawarn: Move sign-compare from W=2 to W=3
To:     Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
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On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 1:57 PM Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
>
> This -Wsign-compare compiler warning can be very noisy
> and most of the suggested conversions are unnecessary.
>
> Make the warning W=3 so it's described under the
> "can most likely be ignored" block.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
> ---

Applied to linux-kbuild. Thanks.


> On Tue, 2020-07-21 at 14:32 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Tue, 2020-07-21 at 19:06 +0000, Corentin Labbe wrote:
> > > This patch fixes the warning:
> > > warning: comparison of integer expressions of different signedness: 'int' and 'long unsigned int' [-Wsign-compare]
> >
> > I think these do not really need conversion.
> > Are these useful compiler warnings ?
>
> Perhaps move the warning from W=2 to W=3 so
> it's described as "can most likely be ignored"
>
>  scripts/Makefile.extrawarn | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
> index 62c275685b75..95e4cdb94fe9 100644
> --- a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
> +++ b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
> @@ -66,7 +66,6 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wnested-externs
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wshadow
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -Wlogical-op)
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wmissing-field-initializers
> -KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wsign-compare
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wtype-limits
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -Wmaybe-uninitialized)
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -Wunused-macros)
> @@ -87,6 +86,7 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wpacked
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wpadded
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wpointer-arith
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wredundant-decls
> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wsign-compare
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wswitch-default
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -Wpacked-bitfield-compat)
>
>
>


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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada