[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/2] drm/i915: Add -Wall -Wextra to our build, set warnings to full

Joonas Lahtinen joonas.lahtinen at linux.intel.com
Mon Oct 16 10:13:28 UTC 2017


On Sat, 2017-10-14 at 11:12 +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Recently W=1 on gcc-7.2 (-Wunused-const-variable) caught a regression
> that had been lurking for 6 months, so lets try enabling the full set of
> warnings for CI builds. This means more patches will be rejected early
> that contain trivial and sometimes not so trivial bugs. However, our
> code does not yet compile cleanly with W=1, so we have to apply a filter
> to the set of warnings until we can eliminate the mistakes. It also
> means that developers will have to be running the full gamut of gcc to
> ensure that as warnings come and go with gcc updates, we have the CI
> build prepared.
> 
> 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>
> Cc: Micahal Wajdeczko <michal.wajdeczko at intel.com>
> Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>

The first portion (this patch) I can easily agree on. I'm not so sure
about the #pragma stuff to move the information to source files. It
sounds like making better use of the compiler warnings, but would we
maybe want to isolate at file level the ones that have the exemption?

Regards, Joonas
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Joonas Lahtinen
Open Source Technology Center
Intel Corporation


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