linux-kernel - Re: somebody dropped a (warning) bomb

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Date:	Thu, 8 Feb 2007 10:35:15 -0600 (CST)
From:	Kumar Gala <galak@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: somebody dropped a (warning) bomb

On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> Just did a pull for the first time since 2.6.20, and a /megaton/ of new 
> warnings have appeared, on Fedora Core 6/x86-64 "make allyesconfig".
>
> All of the new warnings spew appear to be "pointers differ in signedness" 
> warning.  Granted, we should care about these, but even a "silent" build 
> (make -s) now spews far more output than any human could possibly care about, 
> and digging important nuggets out of all this noise is beginning to require 
> automated tools rather than just human eyes.

I think this is because of changes to Kbuild and the ongoing discussion 
related to it.  On PPC I see that we are losing options via $(call 
cc-option..)

- k
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