From: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 5.15
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2021 16:19:49 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YYATpRgJHditIHZT@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHp75Vef8QW3Y0yA702KUqPDHNRLN0kCv06=cgPpgPbUeAb-dw@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 01 Nov 2021, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 31, 2021 at 11:09 PM Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > It's been calm, and I have no excuse to add an extra rc, so here we
> > are, with v5.15 pushed out, and the merge window starting tomorrow.
> >
> > Which is going to be a bit inconvenient for me, since I also have some
> > conference travel coming up. But it's only a couple of days and I'll
> > have my laptop with me. Sometimes the release timing works out, and
> > sometimes it doesn't..
> >
> > Anyway, the last week of 5.15 was mainly networking and gpu fixes,
> > with some random sprinkling of other things (a few btrfs reverts, some
> > kvm updates, minor other fixes here and there - a few architecture
> > fixes, couple of tracing, small driver fixes etc). Full shortlog
> > appended.
> >
> > This release may have started out with some -Werror pain, but it
> > calmed down fairly quickly and on the whole 5.15 was fair small and
> > calm. Let's hope for more of the same - without Werror issues this
> > time - for the upcoming merge window.
>
> Do we really now have any use of COMPILE_TEST=y WERROR=y with `make W=1`?
> To me it seems every CI just disabled it because it's impossible to
> build a kernel anymore.
>
> What is the roadmap of fixing this (to some extent)?
>
> I remember that Lee spent a lot of time cleaning up W=1 cases. Maybe
> he knows the state of affairs of this with -Werror enabled...
Probably never. I managed to get the warnings down from ~18k to ~2k
IIRC. However subsystems like GPU keep adding 10's of them every
release, so the job became perpetual.
I do plan on doing another rotation once I get a bit more free time.
--
Lee Jones [李琼斯]
Senior Technical Lead - Developer Services
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-01 16:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-31 21:09 Linux 5.15 Linus Torvalds
2021-11-01 0:23 ` Guenter Roeck
2021-11-01 8:13 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-11-02 1:17 ` Guenter Roeck
2021-11-02 1:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-11-02 3:19 ` Guenter Roeck
2021-11-01 4:49 ` Thorsten is tracking regression again and could need a little help (was: Re: Linux 5.15) Thorsten Leemhuis
[not found] ` <c11d94b4-1701-4e26-efd1-42038342c4aa@kaputniks.org>
2021-11-01 11:56 ` Greg KH
2021-11-01 12:54 ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2021-11-01 12:33 ` Greg KH
2021-11-01 12:44 ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2021-11-01 13:03 ` Greg KH
2021-11-01 13:34 ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2021-11-01 15:27 ` Greg KH
2021-11-01 16:19 ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2021-11-01 15:07 ` Linux 5.15 Andy Shevchenko
2021-11-01 16:19 ` Lee Jones [this message]
2021-11-01 17:25 ` Sudip Mukherjee
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