linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH] fsnotify: avoid gcc-10 zero-length-bounds warning

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Message-ID: <af2c5bdf0c4e4e00bef96b5c6b4e1da7@AcuMS.aculab.com>
Date:   Thu, 7 May 2020 08:01:51 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     'Arnd Bergmann' <arnd@...db.de>,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
CC:     Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>,
        "Linux FS-devel Mailing List" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] fsnotify: avoid gcc-10 zero-length-bounds warning

From: Arnd Bergmann
> Sent: 05 May 2020 16:00
...
> Yes, we usually backport trivial warning fixes to stable kernels to allow
> building those with any modern compiler version.

In this case wouldn't it be better to backport a change that disables
the specific compiler warning?

	David

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