Re: Look Ma, da kernel is b0rken

From: Stephen Rothwell
Date: Wed Dec 05 2012 - 15:57:24 EST


Hi Alan,

On Wed, 5 Dec 2012 15:47:49 +0000 Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> And yes btw we should turn this option on in -next, and get these sort of
> things out of the tree for good. More importantly it'll mean anyone
> adding another one gets a whine on the spot.

While I appreciate your confidence, I don't notice quite a few new
warnings (because there are so many of them already :-(). Is there some
reason to not turn this on in our "normal" builds? Does it produce many
false positives? What compiler version is required?

I also currently don't carry patches that only ever appear in linux-next
(well, not intentionally anyway). I assume it would require a patch to
the Makefile(s) to turn this on.
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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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