Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759059AbXIBUnk (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Sep 2007 16:43:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751059AbXIBUnb (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Sep 2007 16:43:31 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:52344 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750816AbXIBUna (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Sep 2007 16:43:30 -0400 Message-ID: <46DB2070.9010608@garzik.org> Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 16:43:28 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Satyam Sharma CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List , James Bottomley , Oliver Neukum , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] DC395x SCSI driver: Shut up uninitialized variable build warning References: <46DB1BDF.4090100@garzik.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.9 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 899 Lines: 24 Satyam Sharma wrote: > I'll post the info as a reply to the first mail in this series. I have > fairly recent gcc (4.1.1) and I don't see us dropping support for it in > the next few years. What's important is not support lifetime, but whether or not the warning persists through version 4.1.2, 4.1.3, etc. We don't want to add markers for compiler quirks that come and go. The current markers tend to exist for a class of problems that gcc fundamentally has a tough time "seeing." Different optimizer behaviors from compiler version to compiler version are just noise[1]. Jeff [1] sometimes quite literally, in the case of compiler warnings. - 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/