linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/12] making the kernel -Wshadow clean

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Message-ID: <m3ac6rkp8c.fsf@defiant.localdomain>
Date:	Sun, 30 Jul 2006 18:54:27 +0200
From:	Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>
To:	Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Nikita Danilov <nikita@...sterfs.com>,
	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	Martin Waitz <tali@...ingilde.org>,
	Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@...-owl.de>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Russell King <rmk@....linux.org.uk>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] making the kernel -Wshadow clean - The initial step

Hi,

Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com> writes:

> This is a series of patches that try to be an initial step towards making
> the kernel build -Wshadow clean.

I'm not sure such patches improve situation.

> It'll help us keep our namespaces separate.

Nope, it's exactly opposite - now we have separate namespaces and
-Wshadow reduces that separation.

Currently you don't have to worry about the universe when you write
a piece of code, and more importantly the universe doesn't have to
worry about each function and each private variable. I'm not sure
changing that is a good idea.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa
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