Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 14:41:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 14:41:37 -0400 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:57609 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 14:41:37 -0400 Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 11:46:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Alan Cox cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda , William Lee Irwin III , linux-kernel Subject: Re: PATCH: compile the kernel with -Werror In-Reply-To: <1026570243.9958.81.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 962 Lines: 26 On 13 Jul 2002, Alan Cox wrote: > > May I suggest the user learns to use the command line properly. Adding > -Werror doesn't help because gcc emits far too many bogus warnings for > that. Especially _some_ versions of gcc. We've tried this before, and there are versions of gcc that have some warnings on by default that simply aren't acceptable and cannot be avoided sanely (I think at least some snapshots had the sign warnings on, for example, which causes some really silly warnings where the warnings are less odious than the changes required to get rid of them). That said, I don't think -Werror is really wrong. It might make it less likely to have new drivers introducing unnecessary warnings.. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/