Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964968AbWEJO5y (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 May 2006 10:57:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964966AbWEJO5y (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 May 2006 10:57:54 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:45503 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964968AbWEJO5x (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 May 2006 10:57:53 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] sys_semctl gcc 4.1 warning fix From: Alan Cox To: Daniel Walker Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1147271489.21536.70.camel@c-67-180-134-207.hsd1.ca.comcast.net> References: <200605100256.k4A2u8bd031779@dwalker1.mvista.com> <1147257266.17886.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1147271489.21536.70.camel@c-67-180-134-207.hsd1.ca.comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 16:09:47 +0100 Message-Id: <1147273787.17886.46.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-4.fc4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 675 Lines: 16 On Mer, 2006-05-10 at 07:31 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > > Hiding warnings like this can be a hazard as it will hide real warnings > > later on. > > How could it hide real warnings? If anything these patch allow other > (real warnings) to be seen . Because while the warning is present people will check it now and again. If you set the variable to zero then you generate extra code and you ensure nobody will look in future. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/