From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 02:10:01 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't build any of the sparc arch bits with -Werror Message-Id: <20110225.181001.71112364.davem@davemloft.net> List-Id: References: <1298678235-29164-1-git-send-email-dennis@ausil.us> In-Reply-To: <1298678235-29164-1-git-send-email-dennis@ausil.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org From: Dennis Gilmore Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:06:00 -0600 > This is due to gcc-4.6 it throws warnings for defined but unused variables. > without this we cant build the kernel at all. i have buil tested but not > tried to run yet Then fix the warnings since they are likely legitimate. We've had -Werror there for _years_, don't just knee jerk remove it because some new compiler notices new problems.