Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 21:51:20 +0100
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
       davej@redhat.com, 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 Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 01:34:35AM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> 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).

We can do better as we do currently, but we cannever get the kernel 100% 
warning free for all supported kernel configurations and all supported 
gcc versions.

E.g. gcc emitting some "unused variable" warnings when compiling with 
CONFIG_PCI=n is quite common, and although they could all be fixed there 
will always be some warnings with unusual kernel configurations.

> 	Sam

cu
Adrian

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