linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.19-rc4

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Date:	Tue, 31 Oct 2006 19:45:52 +0100
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
To:	"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@...gle.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@...jp.nec.com>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.19-rc4

On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 08:14:32AM -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> >But I've become innoculated against warnings, just because we have too 
> >many of the totally useless noise about deprecation and crud, and ppc has 
> >it's own set of bogus compiler-and-linker-generated warnings..
> >
> >At some point we should get rid of all the "politeness" warnings, just 
> >because they can end up hiding the _real_ ones.
> 
> Yay! Couldn't agree more. Does this mean you'll take patches for all the
> uninitialized variable crap from gcc 4.x ?
>...

Another approach might be to get the gcc -Wuninitialized option splitted 
into two different options ("is used uninitialized" and
"might be used uninitialized") and disable the latter.

> M.
>...

cu
Adrian

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