Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 17:19:43 -0800 (PST)
Message-Id: <20051118.171943.53979015.davem@davemloft.net>
To: sam@ravnborg.org
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, 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
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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 01:34:35 +0100

> 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).

Many ports already add -Werror to the CFLAGS via their
arch/${ARCH}/* makefiles.
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