Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 01:34:35 +0100
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, davej@redhat.com, bunk@stusta.de,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] mark virt_to_bus/bus_to_virt as __deprecated on i386
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On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 08:03:54PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> >
> > The deprecated warnings are so easy to filter out, so I don't think
> >  noise is a good argument.  I see them all the time too.
> 
> That works for you and me.  But how to train all those people who write
> warny patches?

Would it work to use -Werror only on some parts of the kernel.
Thinking of teaching kbuild to recursively apply a flags to gcc.

Then we could say that kernel/ should be warning free (to a start).

	Sam
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