linux-kernel - Re: [git-pull -tip] Add -Werror to arch/x86/ files only and fix warnings

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Date:	Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:28:02 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>, x86@...nel.org,
	sam@...nborg.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [git-pull -tip] Add -Werror to arch/x86/ files only and fix
	warnings


* Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:34:18 +0530
> Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org> wrote:
> 
> > I added -Werror for x86/files only
> 
> yikes.
> 
> Not only does this need to be tested for all configs, it also need 
> to be tested for all approved gcc versions.
> 
> For example, one of my compilers always spews warnings from x86 
> because it has the "foo(&bar) doesn't initialise bar" stupidity.
> 
> And there will be other gcc inconsitencies, for sure.

Yes.

> > Subject: [PATCH-tip] x86: Adding -Werror to arch/x86/ files only 
> > for !CONFIG_ALLOW_X86_WARNINGS
> 
> whew, that sounds better.

Yes, as requested by an equally worried x86 maintainer ;-)

	Ingo
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