Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Nov 2021 16:19:49 +0000 | From | Lee Jones <> | Subject | Re: Linux 5.15 |
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On Mon, 01 Nov 2021, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 31, 2021 at 11:09 PM Linus Torvalds > <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > > > It's been calm, and I have no excuse to add an extra rc, so here we > > are, with v5.15 pushed out, and the merge window starting tomorrow. > > > > Which is going to be a bit inconvenient for me, since I also have some > > conference travel coming up. But it's only a couple of days and I'll > > have my laptop with me. Sometimes the release timing works out, and > > sometimes it doesn't.. > > > > Anyway, the last week of 5.15 was mainly networking and gpu fixes, > > with some random sprinkling of other things (a few btrfs reverts, some > > kvm updates, minor other fixes here and there - a few architecture > > fixes, couple of tracing, small driver fixes etc). Full shortlog > > appended. > > > > This release may have started out with some -Werror pain, but it > > calmed down fairly quickly and on the whole 5.15 was fair small and > > calm. Let's hope for more of the same - without Werror issues this > > time - for the upcoming merge window. > > Do we really now have any use of COMPILE_TEST=y WERROR=y with `make W=1`? > To me it seems every CI just disabled it because it's impossible to > build a kernel anymore. > > What is the roadmap of fixing this (to some extent)? > > I remember that Lee spent a lot of time cleaning up W=1 cases. Maybe > he knows the state of affairs of this with -Werror enabled...
Probably never. I managed to get the warnings down from ~18k to ~2k IIRC. However subsystems like GPU keep adding 10's of them every release, so the job became perpetual.
I do plan on doing another rotation once I get a bit more free time.
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