Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751515AbWEJWaV (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 May 2006 18:30:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751514AbWEJWaV (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 May 2006 18:30:21 -0400 Received: from dsl027-180-168.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.180.168]:65247 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751511AbWEJWaU (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 May 2006 18:30:20 -0400 Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 15:30:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20060510.153007.19037157.davem@davemloft.net> To: akpm@osdl.org Cc: viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, dwalker@mvista.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] sys_semctl gcc 4.1 warning fix From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20060510150321.11262b24.akpm@osdl.org> References: <1147275522.21536.109.camel@c-67-180-134-207.hsd1.ca.comcast.net> <20060510162106.GC27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> <20060510150321.11262b24.akpm@osdl.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 4.2.53 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 784 Lines: 18 From: Andrew Morton Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 15:03:21 -0700 > 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. I totally agree. These gcc-4.x warnings bug this shit out of me too and we should fix them now. Even a huge tree like gcc can build itself %100 fine with -Werror, for pretty much every configuration possible, and yet we're astronomically so far away from that. That's totally unacceptable. - 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/