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Date:	Sun, 21 Jul 2013 18:52:38 +0300
From:	Vladimir Kondratiev <qca_vkondrat@....qualcomm.com>
To:	<thomas@...llstrom.ca>
CC:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>, <linville@...driver.com>,
	<linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	<wil6210@....qualcomm.com>, Stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath: wil6210: Fix build error

On Sunday, July 21, 2013 09:35:40 AM Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> If it helps, I'm running a fresh install of Debian Sid with gcc 4.8.1. I've 
> noticed that each newer successive version of gcc gets more strict with what 
> code it accepts without warning, or error. A lot of my only somewhat old code 
> tends to have a lot more warnings. Especially that signedness warning.

Yes, this is the case; I have 4.7.3

> 
> It also looked like that that driver or section of the kernel was compiling 
> with -Werror. I haven't verrified that but I remember seeing "treating all 
> warnings as errors" at one point.
> 
You are right, I have this in Makefile:
(if one turn on extra warnings with -W, there will be lots of false alarms,
that's why this ifeq())

ifeq (, $(findstring -W,$(EXTRA_CFLAGS)))
	subdir-ccflags-y += -Werror
endif

Thanks, Vladimir
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