Re: Do you want warning quashing patches at this point in the cycle?

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon Oct 04 2021 - 12:38:57 EST


On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 3:13 AM David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Do you want patches that quash warnings from W=1

For W=1? No.

The kerneldoc ones might be ok, but actual code fixes have
historically been problematic because W=1 sometimes warns for
perfectly good code (and then people "fix" it to not warn, and
introduce actual bugs).

Linus