From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
James Smart <james.smart@emulex.com>
Subject: Re: scsi: lpfc_scsi: Remove unused variables
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 01:42:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120607064224.GD3210@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FD04854.5010304@gentoo.org>
Richard Yao wrote:
> Using -Werror enables us to catch potential runtime issues before they
> happen.
You have more trust in GCC and other compilers than I do.
If you'd like some entertainment, then for example see:
http://gcc.gnu.org/PR52798
http://gcc.gnu.org/PR25509
Bugs and misdesigned features do not have to be involved for this to
be a problem --- all it takes is a gcc upgrade that adds a new
warning, and suddenly you've turned your existing potential code
cleanliness improvements into failed builds and lots of wasted time
for innocent sysadmins. -Werror is great for development, but using
it in production turns out to be pretty much always a terrible idea.
Thanks for the chance to vent about this. :) It's bad, bad, bad.
Ciao,
Jonathan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-07 6:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2012-06-07 6:12 ` scsi: lpfc_scsi: Remove unused variables Jonathan Nieder
2012-06-07 6:21 ` Richard Yao
2012-06-07 6:42 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2012-06-11 14:02 ` James Smart
2012-06-07 6:37 ` Greg KH
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