Re: linux-next: disabling -Wstringop-truncation

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Aug 30 2018 - 21:17:16 EST


On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 3:07 PM Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I am now mainly using gcc v8.2 for my builds and -Wstringop-truncation
> causes so many warnings that I am sure to miss others, so I have
> applied the below to my fixes tree until the noise reduces.

Applied.

If people want the warning with W=xyz, then this is still the correct
patch, and we should add a line to re-enable it in
scripts/Makefile.extrawarn.

Linus