linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.19-rc4

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Date:	Tue, 31 Oct 2006 19:26:13 +0000
From:	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>
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 ?

Why not apply pressure to gcc people to fix their compiler warning bugs
instead?

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core
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