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scripts/Makefile.extrawarn: Respect CONFIG_WERROR / W=e for hostprogs
Commit 27758d8c25 ("kbuild: enable -Werror for hostprogs")
unconditionally enabled -Werror for the compiler, assembler, and linker
when building the host programs, as the build footprint of the host
programs is small (thus risk of build failures from warnings are low)
and that stage of the build may not have Kconfig values (thus
CONFIG_WERROR could not be used as a precondition).

While turning warnings into errors unconditionally happens in a few
places within the kernel, it can be disruptive to people who may be
building with newer compilers, such as while doing a bisect. While it is
possible to avoid this behavior by passing HOSTCFLAGS=-w or
HOSTCFLAGS=-Wno-error, it may not be the most intuitive for regular
users not intimately familiar with Kbuild.

Avoid being disruptive to the entire build by depending on the explicit
opt-in of CONFIG_WERROR or W=e to enable -Werror and the like while
building the host programs. While this means there is a small portion of
the build that does not have -Werror enabled (namely scripts/kconfig/*
and scripts/basic/fixdep), it is better than not having it altogether.

Fixes: 27758d8c25 ("kbuild: enable -Werror for hostprogs")
Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Askar Safin <safinaskar@gmail.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/20251005011100.1035272-1-safinaskar@gmail.com/
Reviewed-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> # Rust
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251006-kbuild-hostprogs-werror-fix-v1-1-23cf1ffced5c@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
2025-10-07 09:46:04 -07:00
arch Merge patch series "Add generated modalias to modules.builtin.modinfo" 2025-09-24 09:10:54 -07:00
block vfs-6.17-rc6.fixes 2025-09-08 07:53:01 -07:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto crypto: sha512 - Implement export_core() and import_core() 2025-09-02 19:02:39 -07:00
Documentation Documentation: kbuild: note CONFIG_DEBUG_EFI in reproducible builds 2025-09-25 04:41:48 -07:00
drivers Merge patch series "Add generated modalias to modules.builtin.modinfo" 2025-09-24 09:10:54 -07:00
fs Fix a CPU topology parsing bug on AMD guests, and address 2025-09-14 08:39:48 -07:00
include Merge patch series "Add generated modalias to modules.builtin.modinfo" 2025-09-24 09:10:54 -07:00
init Linux 6.17-rc6 2025-09-19 13:43:11 -07:00
io_uring vfs-6.17-rc6.fixes 2025-09-08 07:53:01 -07:00
ipc vfs-6.17-rc1.mmap_prepare 2025-07-28 13:43:25 -07:00
kernel Fix a lost-timeout CPU hotplug bug in the hrtimer code, which 2025-09-14 08:38:05 -07:00
lib Linux 6.17-rc6 2025-09-19 13:43:11 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Replace the obsolete address of the FSF in the GFDL-1.2 2025-07-24 11:15:39 +02:00
mm 20 hotfixes. 15 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.16 issues 2025-09-10 21:19:34 -07:00
net A fix for a race condition around r_parent tracking that took a long 2025-09-13 10:45:11 -07:00
rust Merge patch series "Add generated modalias to modules.builtin.modinfo" 2025-09-24 09:10:54 -07:00
samples ftrace/samples: Fix function size computation 2025-09-05 18:39:12 -04:00
scripts scripts/Makefile.extrawarn: Respect CONFIG_WERROR / W=e for hostprogs 2025-10-07 09:46:04 -07:00
security + Features 2025-08-04 08:17:28 -07:00
sound ALSA: hda/hdmi: Add pin fix for another HP EliteDesk 800 G4 model 2025-09-01 13:51:57 +02:00
tools Linux 6.17-rc6 2025-09-19 13:43:11 -07:00
usr kbuild: uapi: Strip comments before size type check 2025-10-06 11:31:19 -07:00
virt Merge tag 'kvm-x86-no_assignment-6.17' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEAD 2025-07-29 08:36:42 -04:00
.clang-format Linux 6.15-rc5 2025-05-06 16:39:25 +10:00
.clippy.toml rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's warning about clippy::disallowed_macros configuration 2025-05-07 00:11:47 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: Retire Ralf Baechle 2024-11-12 15:48:59 +01:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore compile_commands.json globally 2025-08-12 15:53:55 -07:00
.mailmap MAINTAINERS: Update Nobuhiro Iwamatsu's email address 2025-09-01 10:36:10 +02:00
.pylintrc docs: add a .pylintrc file with sys path for docs scripts 2025-04-09 12:10:33 -06:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: retire Boris from TLS maintainers 2025-08-26 17:36:01 -07:00
Kbuild drm: ensure drm headers are self-contained and pass kernel-doc 2025-02-12 10:44:43 +02:00
Kconfig io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig 2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
MAINTAINERS Input updates for v6.17-rc5 2025-09-14 08:09:37 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.17-rc6 2025-09-19 13:43:11 -07:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.