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    kbuild: implement several W= levels · 28bc20dc
    Sam Ravnborg authored
    Building a kernel with "make W=1" produces far too much noise to be
    useful.
    
    Divide the warning options in three groups:
    
        W=1 - warnings that may be relevant and does not occur too often
        W=2 - warnings that occur quite often but may still be relevant
        W=3 - the more obscure warnings, can most likely be ignored
    
    When building the whole kernel, those levels produce:
    
    W=1 - 4859 warnings
    W=2 - 1394 warnings
    W=3 - 86666 warnings
    
    respectively. Warnings have been counted with Geert's script at
    
    http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/geert/linux-log/linux-log-summary.pl
    
    
    
    Many warnings occur from .h files so fixing one file may have a nice
    effect on the total number of warnings.
    
    With these changes I am actually tempted to try W=1 now and then.
    Previously there was just too much noise.
    
    Borislav:
    
    - make the W= levels exclusive
    - move very noisy and making little sense for the kernel warnings to W=3
    - drop -Woverlength-strings due to useless warning message
    - copy explanatory text for the different warning levels to 'make help'
    - recount warnings per level
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
    Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
    Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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