Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423548AbWJaQP3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:15:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423550AbWJaQP3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:15:29 -0500 Received: from smtp-out.google.com ([216.239.45.12]:49219 "EHLO smtp-out.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423548AbWJaQP2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:15:28 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=beta; d=google.com; c=nofws; q=dns; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc: subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=BKND9n/zVFfGETvaLz1wi8KGUFV8n3pmSsz1l6hJ4FOmJpjfZ2BqwwhgYg4wFNoea bnkH6UZTkrbQvj8u9a62g== Message-ID: <45477668.4070801@google.com> Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 08:14:32 -0800 From: "Martin J. Bligh" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060922) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , "Jun'ichi Nomura" Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.19-rc4 References: <20061030213454.8266fcb6.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1245 Lines: 28 > But I've become innoculated against warnings, just because we have too > many of the totally useless noise about deprecation and crud, and ppc has > it's own set of bogus compiler-and-linker-generated warnings.. > > At some point we should get rid of all the "politeness" warnings, just > because they can end up hiding the _real_ ones. Yay! Couldn't agree more. Does this mean you'll take patches for all the uninitialized variable crap from gcc 4.x ? > "pm_register is deprecated" etc - I get almost a hundred lines of warnings > in my default build (and half of those are sadly due to powerpc binutils, > that I can't do anythign about: "section .init.text exceeds stub group > size" etc, which is harmless _other_ than the fact that it helped hide the > real warnings just because I've grown too used to not looking too > closely). Doesn't turning off CONFIG_PM_LEGACY fix those? it did for me. M. PS. I still think -Werror is a good plan. But I acknowledge that's fairly extreme. - 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/