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Message-ID: <1432043572.3007.14.camel@HansenPartnership.com>
Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 06:52:52 -0700
From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc: linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RESEND] SCSI: ips: remove pointless #warning
On Tue, 2015-05-19 at 15:33 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The ips driver contains
>
> #warning "This driver has only been tested on the x86/ia64/x86_64 platforms"
>
> which gets printed by the compiler every time this driver gets
> build for something other than those three architectures. The same
> is true for most other drivers, but none of them prints a warning like
> this.
>
> Let's remove the warning now to reduce the amount of clutter.
>
> FWIW, I've reviewed the driver and found a few oddities, but nothing
> that needs to be fixed or that would be architecture specific.
In principle I don't disagree. However this warning was a specific
request of the driver writers. Since the driver is pretty much dead,
I'm not sure anyone is going to check or fix it for non-intel any time
soon.
James
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