Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 23:10:24 +0100
From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: dwalker@mvista.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] sys_semctl gcc 4.1 warning fix
Message-ID: <20060510221024.GH27946@ftp.linux.org.uk>
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On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 03:03:21PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Don't.  Fix.  Correct.  Code.
> > 
> >  Ever.  Because sooner or later you will paper over real bug.
> 
> I occasionally receive patches which generate new warnings, and those
> warnings flag real bugs.  The developer simply missing the warning amongst
> all the other crap.
> 
> It seems to especialy affect ia64 developers, whose build is especially
> noisy.

I know.  But that's the argument in favour of using diff, not shutting the
bogus warnings up...
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