Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752394AbWKAVEc (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Nov 2006 16:04:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752395AbWKAVEc (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Nov 2006 16:04:32 -0500 Received: from pasmtpa.tele.dk ([80.160.77.114]:63973 "EHLO pasmtpA.tele.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752394AbWKAVEb (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Nov 2006 16:04:31 -0500 Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 22:04:22 +0100 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Guennadi Liakhovetski Cc: Willy Tarreau , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, ray-gmail@madrabbit.org, "Martin J. Bligh" , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , "Jun'ichi Nomura" Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.19-rc4 Message-ID: <20061101210422.GB691@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: <20061030213454.8266fcb6.akpm@osdl.org> <45477668.4070801@google.com> <2c0942db0610310834i6244c0abm10c81e984565ed8a@mail.gmail.com> <200610312053.k9VKr0Fm007201@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20061101063340.GA543@1wt.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1240 Lines: 26 On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 09:26:13PM +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > > On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 08:34:23 PST, Ray Lee said: > > > > On 10/31/06, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > > > > > > 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 ? > > > > > > > > What would be useful in the short term is a tool that shows only the > > > > new warnings that didn't exist in the last point release. > > Would it be possible to create a new verbosity level like V=2 to hide > those "politeness" warnings so that by default everybody still would see > all of them, but those needing to track regressions could use it and only > see severe ones? I suggest you try out make V=2 one day. It does not compress warnings but tells you why something got rebuild. Sam - 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/