Re: [PATCH v3.1] kbuild: implement several W= levels

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 07:50:42PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
> 
> Building a kernel with "make W=1" produce far too much noise
> to be usefull.
> 
> Divide the warning options in three groups:
> 
>     W=1 - warnings that may be relevant and does not occur too often
>     W=2 - warnings that occur quite often but may still be relevant
>     W=3 - the more obscure warnings, can most likely be ignored
> 
> When building init/ on my box the levels produces:
> 
> W=1 - 46 warnings
> W=2 - 863 warnings
> W=3 - 6496 warnings
> 
> Many warnings occur from .h files so fixing one file may have a nice
> effect on the total number of warnings.
> 
> With these changes I am actually tempted to try W=1 now and then.
> Previously there were just too much noise.
> 
> Borislav:
> 
> - make the W= levels exclusive
I do not see the point in this really. This is not what most people would
expect.
When you ask for more you get more - not something else.

We see it with verbose levels where -vv give more output than -v etc.

Anyway - the important thing is to keep the relevant warnings at W=1 level.
Which is independendt of this change.
So consider the input and decide - I do not want to make a fuzz about it.

	Sam