[RFC v2 01/39] Kconfig: introduce HAS_IOPORT option and select it as necessary
Finn Thain
fthain at linux-m68k.org
Sat May 7 17:15:31 PDT 2022
On Sun, 8 May 2022, I wrote:
>
> That suggests to me that we need a "bool CONFIG_WARINGS_INTO_ERRORS" to
> control -Werror, which could be disabled for .config files (like make
> allmodconfig) where it is not helping.
>
I just noticed that we already have CONFIG_WERROR. So perhaps something
like this would help.
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index ddcbefe535e9..765d83fb148e 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -150,6 +150,8 @@ config WERROR
However, if you have a new (or very old) compiler with odd and
unusual warnings, or you have some architecture with problems,
+ or if you are using a compiler that doesn't happen to interpret
+ the C standards in quite the same way as some other compilers,
you may need to disable this config option in order to
successfully build the kernel.
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