From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: masahiroy@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
nathan@kernel.org, ndesaulniers@google.com, x86@kernel.org,
linux-toolchains@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile: 'Promote' -Wunused-but-set-variable to W=3
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2021 16:34:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210911213401.GE1583@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210911142905.GZ4323@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net>
On Sat, Sep 11, 2021 at 04:29:05PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Upgrade -Wunused-but-set-variable to W=3 to avoid the build robots
> sending endless spam for this garbage warning.
"This warning for garbage code" you mean?
> By promoting it to W=3 the robots will no longer report it and people
> will no longer attempt to fix them by making the code worse.
Instead, they will not see such warnings, and make the code worse.
Segher
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-11 21:37 UTC|newest]
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2021-09-11 14:29 [PATCH] Makefile: 'Promote' -Wunused-but-set-variable to W=3 Peter Zijlstra
2021-09-11 21:34 ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
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