[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/2] drm/i915: Disable -Woverride-init

[Joonas Lahtinen]

On ke, 2017-01-18 at 12:18 +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> We commonly use an inheritance style approach to device parameters,
> where later generations inherit the defaults from earlier generations
> and then override settings that change. For example, in i915_pci.c
> BDW_FEATURES pulls in HSW_FEATURES, makes a few changes for 48bit
> contexts and then individual Broadwell stanzas make further adjustments
> for different GT configs.
> 
> This causes a lot of warnings with make W=1 from -Woverride-init. We
> could use
> 	#pragma GCC diagnostic push
> 	#pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Woverride-init"
> 	...
> 	#pragma GCC diagnostic pop
> around the offenders, but the pattern is used frequently enough in the
> driver to prefer just disabling the warning entirely.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen at linux.intel.com
> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at intel.com>
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
> Cc: Tomi Sarvela <tomi.p.sarvela at intel.com>

<SNIP>
 
> -subdir-ccflags-$(CONFIG_DRM_I915_WERROR) := -Werror
> +subdir-ccflags-y := -Wno-override-init # used frequently for "inheritance"

Why always on, if somebody upper level decides to -Werror, this is
kinda unexpected for them?

Regards, Joonas
-- 
Joonas Lahtinen
Open Source Technology Center
Intel Corporation