Re: [PATCH tip v5 2/5] kbuild: Add option to turn incompatible pointer check into error

From	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH tip v5 2/5] kbuild: Add option to turn incompatible pointer check into error
Date	2016-01-27 13:10 +0100
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On Mon, 30 Nov 2015, Daniel Wagner wrote:
>  
> +ifdef CONFIG_ENABLE_ERR_TYPE_CHECK
> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types)
> +endif

I don't see a value for making this configurable. If the compiler supports it,
we should use it. It already found a bug, so why would we make that optional?

Thanks,

	tglx

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