linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.19-rc4

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Date:	Wed, 1 Nov 2006 22:04:22 +0100
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@....de>
Cc:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu,
	ray-gmail@...rabbit.org, "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@...gle.com>,
	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 Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 09:26:13PM +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> > > On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 08:34:23 PST, Ray Lee said:
> > > > On 10/31/06, Martin J. Bligh <mbligh@...gle.com> wrote:
> > > > > > 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 ?
> > > > 
> > > > What would be useful in the short term is a tool that shows only the
> > > > new warnings that didn't exist in the last point release.
> 
> Would it be possible to create a new verbosity level like V=2 to hide 
> those "politeness" warnings so that by default everybody still would see 
> all of them, but those needing to track regressions could use it and only 
> see severe ones?

I suggest you try out make V=2 one day.
It does not compress warnings but tells you why something got rebuild.

	Sam
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