Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 10:41:32 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Pranith Kumar <pranith.hacks@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Are patches for warnings in drivers/staging/* worth?
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On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 11:34:22AM +0530, Pranith Kumar wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> I am looking at the various warnings which occur while compiling the 
> staging drivers. Most of them are
> 
> * unused variables
> * arg makes pointer from integer without cast
> * un-initialized variable
> 
> What in these warnings should I send patches against? Are they worth the 
> effort?

Sure they are worth the effort in cleaning up this kind of things.
Always generate patches for the staging tree against the latest
linux-next release.

thanks,

greg k-h
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