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From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Wed, 23 Mar 2022 10:19:39 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/defconfig: Enable WERROR
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
        Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>,
        Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
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On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 4:21 AM Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
>
> So this should make at least the most obvious and common ones not go
> unnoticed.

Ack. I'm actually surprised people use "defconfig". It's kind of
pointless and unreal on x86 where there is no realistic "default". I'm
sorry it exists at all.

But since people clearly use it - presumably for testing - I very much
think it should have WERROR on.

                Linus