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Date:   Wed, 23 Mar 2022 18:33:55 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
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        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
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        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/defconfig: Enable WERROR
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On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 10:19:39AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, it has been there since forever and peterz and mingo use it from
time to time, AFAIK. Also, I know people start from a defconfig and add
additional stuff they need.

Oh, and it is part of the smoke build-tests we're doing so...

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

Yeah, I am aiming for a "this should be always enabled in your config
so you could use this defconfig as a start"-thing, in the hope that
WERROR=y would proliferate then.

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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