Re: [PATCH 1/2] MIPS: Kbuild: remove -Werror

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>]

On Fri, 27 Apr 2012, David Daney wrote:

> > MIPS build fails with the standard W=1 Kbuild switch with because of the
> > -Werror gcc switch.
> > 
> > This patch removes the gcc switch to make W=1 work. Mips is the only
> > architecture I know which does not build with W=1 and this upsets my aiaiai
> > scripts. And in general, you never know which warnings newer versions of gcc
> > will start emiting so having -Werror by default is not the best idea.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy<artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
> 
> I think the warning messages are enough, we don't need to break things.

 I disagree.  People generally don't fix their broken code just because it 
triggers warnings.  The cases where GCC is genuinely confused are the 
minority -- and even if so, chances are the human reader of that code will 
also be.

  Maciej