Re: [PATCH 00/13] selftests: Fix problems seen when building with -Werror

Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]> Thu, 4 Dec 2025 08:27:54 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.linux.network,gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.comp.emulators.wine.devel,gmane.linux.kernel.bpf
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu,  4 Dec 2025 08:17:14 -0800 Guenter Roeck wrote:
> This series fixes build errors observed when trying to build selftests
> with -Werror.

If your intention is to make -Werror the default please stop.
Defaulting WERROR to enabled is one of the silliest things we have done
in recent past.

People will try to use new compilers on a kernel after it has already
been released. Not being able to build the kernel because of some false
positive warning in another subsystem is so annoying :|