Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423228AbXBHQh6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Feb 2007 11:37:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423224AbXBHQh6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Feb 2007 11:37:58 -0500 Received: from nommos.sslcatacombnetworking.com ([67.18.224.114]:1438 "EHLO nommos.sslcatacombnetworking.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423226AbXBHQh4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Feb 2007 11:37:56 -0500 Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 10:35:15 -0600 (CST) From: Kumar Gala X-X-Sender: galak@localhost.localdomain To: Jeff Garzik cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: somebody dropped a (warning) bomb In-Reply-To: <45CB3B28.60102@garzik.org> Message-ID: References: <45CB3B28.60102@garzik.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-PopBeforeSMTPSenders: kumar-chaos@kgala.com,kumar-statements@kgala.com,kumar@kgala.com X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - nommos.sslcatacombnetworking.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - kernel.crashing.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 952 Lines: 21 On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Just did a pull for the first time since 2.6.20, and a /megaton/ of new > warnings have appeared, on Fedora Core 6/x86-64 "make allyesconfig". > > All of the new warnings spew appear to be "pointers differ in signedness" > warning. Granted, we should care about these, but even a "silent" build > (make -s) now spews far more output than any human could possibly care about, > and digging important nuggets out of all this noise is beginning to require > automated tools rather than just human eyes. I think this is because of changes to Kbuild and the ongoing discussion related to it. On PPC I see that we are losing options via $(call cc-option..) - k - 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/