Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:18:14 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Rufus & Azrael <rufus-azrael@numericable.fr>,
       Linux-kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>,
       Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderlinux@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [2.6.29-rc2-git2] compilation warnings
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* Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:15:29 +0100, Rufus & Azrael wrote:
> > Hi all,
> 
> First of all: you really DO NOT WANT to send a message to 4000 people
> asking for an acknowledgment of receipt.
> 
> > Here are my compilation warnings for fresh 2.6.29-rc2-git2 kernel :
> 
> Sending 33k of warning messages at once to a generic mailing list is 
> unlikely to get you anywhere. If you really want these warnings to get 
> fixed, you better find the right person to report each warning. 
> Otherwise your report has very little value.

Also, there's a systematic effort in tip/master to fix all build warnings 
on all x86 configs that are possible to trigger (with latest GCC):

  http://people.redhat.com/mingo/tip.git/README

(the new .29 warnings are not all fixed yet but work is underway)

	Ingo
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