kernel: introduce KERNEL_WERROR config option

In commit b2d1eb717b65 ("generic: 5.15: enable Werror by default for
kernel compile") CONFIG_WERROR=y was enabled and all warnings/errors
reported with GCC 12 were fixed.

Keeping this in sync with past/future GCC versions is going to be uphill
battle, so lets introduce new KERNEL_WERROR config option, enable it by
default only for tested/known working combinations and on buildbots.

References: #12687
Signed-off-by: Petr Štetiar <ynezz@true.cz>
(cherry picked from commit ce8c639a6c539534be14a540e7c3e9933d3a34ef)

diff --git a/config/Config-kernel.in b/config/Config-kernel.in
index c4345f9fb519318b30d313fb660b0645908f9625..10e8f95580c918e3eeb3bfac3600cf119c266ced 100644 (file)
--- a/config/Config-kernel.in
+++ b/config/Config-kernel.in
@@ -1340,3 +1340,19 @@ config KERNEL_UBIFS_FS_SECURITY
 
 config KERNEL_JFFS2_FS_SECURITY
        bool "JFFS2 Security Labels"
+
+config KERNEL_WERROR
+       bool "Compile the kernel with warnings as errors"
+       default BUILDBOT
+       default y if GCC_USE_VERSION_12
+       help
+         A kernel build should not cause any compiler warnings, and this
+         enables the '-Werror' (for C) and '-Dwarnings' (for Rust) flags
+         to enforce that rule by default. Certain warnings from other tools
+         such as the linker may be upgraded to errors with this option as
+         well.
+
+         However, if you have a new (or very old) compiler or linker with odd
+         and unusual warnings, or you have some architecture with problems,
+         you may need to disable this config option in order to
+         successfully build the kernel.

diff --git a/target/linux/generic/config-5.15 b/target/linux/generic/config-5.15
index 214a1e6ecd83c067b96cb55ad052ae00b82fa8b5..304b0a6d9184fef0ed0430772d917d9a89a6ee8b 100644 (file)
--- a/target/linux/generic/config-5.15
+++ b/target/linux/generic/config-5.15
@@ -7477,7 +7477,7 @@ CONFIG_WATCHDOG_OPEN_TIMEOUT=0
 # CONFIG_WD80x3 is not set
 # CONFIG_WDAT_WDT is not set
 # CONFIG_WDTPCI is not set
-CONFIG_WERROR=y
+# CONFIG_WERROR is not set
 # CONFIG_WEXT_CORE is not set
 # CONFIG_WEXT_PRIV is not set
 # CONFIG_WEXT_PROC is not set