From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>,
jesper.juhl@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
nikita@clusterfs.com, joe@perches.com, tali@admingilde.org,
jbglaw@lug-owl.de, hch@infradead.org, dwmw2@infradead.org,
arjan@infradead.org, dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com,
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, sam@ravnborg.org, rmk@arm.linux.org.uk,
rusty@rustcorp.com.au, rdunlap@xenotime.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] making the kernel -Wshadow clean - The initial step
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 01:36:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200607310137.00404.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060730112917.88d9ae4e.akpm@osdl.org>
Am Sunday 30 July 2006 20:29 schrieb Andrew Morton:
> While I don't recall any kernel bugs which -Wshadow would have saved us
> from, I think it's a sensible thing to do - it _might_ save us from a bug,
> and we need all the help we can get.
One case where it would have helped in the past is jiffies -- when
experimenting with tickless systems, turning the global jiffies
variable into a macro comes in handy, but that breaks all functions
that have a local variable with the same name.
Arnd <><
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-30 23:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-30 16:30 [PATCH 00/12] making the kernel -Wshadow clean - The initial step Jesper Juhl
2006-07-30 16:35 ` [PATCH 01/12] making the kernel -Wshadow clean - fix mconf Jesper Juhl
2006-07-30 18:34 ` Paul Jackson
2006-07-30 18:48 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-07-30 19:06 ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-30 19:17 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-07-30 19:51 ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-30 19:57 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-30 20:03 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-07-30 19:32 ` Paul Jackson
2006-07-30 23:41 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-07-31 15:41 ` Horst H. von Brand
2006-07-31 16:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-07-30 16:36 ` [PATCH 02/12] making the kernel -Wshadow clean - fix lxdialog Jesper Juhl
2006-07-30 16:37 ` [PATCH 03/12] making the kernel -Wshadow clean - fix jiffies.h Jesper Juhl
2006-07-30 16:38 ` [PATCH 04/12] making the kernel -Wshadow clean - warnings related to 'up' Jesper Juhl
2006-07-30 16:38 ` [PATCH 05/12] making the kernel -Wshadow clean - warnings related to wbc and map_bh Jesper Juhl
2006-07-30 16:39 ` [PATCH 06/12] making the kernel -Wshadow clean - fix checksum Jesper Juhl
2006-07-30 16:40 ` [PATCH 07/12] making the kernel -Wshadow clean - fix vgacon Jesper Juhl
2006-07-30 16:41 ` [PATCH 08/12] making the kernel -Wshadow clean - fix keyboard.c Jesper Juhl
2006-07-30 16:42 ` [PATCH 09/12] making the kernel -Wshadow clean - neighbour.h and 'proc_handler' Jesper Juhl
2006-07-30 16:42 ` [PATCH 10/12] making the kernel -Wshadow clean - mm/truncate.c Jesper Juhl
2006-07-30 16:43 ` [PATCH 11/12] making the kernel -Wshadow clean - USB & completion Jesper Juhl
2006-07-30 16:44 ` [PATCH 12/12] making the kernel -Wshadow clean - 'irq' shadows local and global Jesper Juhl
2006-07-30 16:54 ` [PATCH 00/12] making the kernel -Wshadow clean - The initial step Krzysztof Halasa
2006-07-30 17:14 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-07-30 17:27 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2006-07-30 18:29 ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-30 23:36 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2006-08-01 6:17 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-07-30 19:24 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-07-30 20:09 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2006-07-30 19:29 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-07-30 19:39 ` Jesper Juhl
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