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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: peng.hao2@zte.com.cn, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: WTF: patch "[PATCH] kvm: x86: fix a compile warning" was seriously submitted to be applied to the 4.16-stable tree?
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 16:19:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180417141907.GA6537@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32d1e7bc-f424-7dcd-3bd6-c516147fe5d2@redhat.com>

On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 04:10:41PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 17/04/2018 14:54, Greg KH wrote:
> >> There are people compiling with -Werror.  But really, I sometimes wonder
> >> if stable-kernel-rules.rst should be perused in the same way as the GNU
> >> coding standards].  Most patches that are "auto-selected" these days are
> >> (at least for KVM) exactly the "This could be a problem..." type of thing
> >> that is singled out as _not_ stable-worthy.
> > Are you sure -Werror shows this?  And it's not just a sparse "warning"?
> 
> This should be -Wimplicit, which is enabled by -Wall.

ah, yet-another-W-option that should never be enabled :)

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-17 14:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-17 12:19 WTF: patch "[PATCH] kvm: x86: fix a compile warning" was seriously submitted to be applied to the 4.16-stable tree? gregkh
2018-04-17 12:46 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-04-17 12:54   ` Greg KH
2018-04-17 14:10     ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-04-17 14:19       ` Greg KH [this message]
2018-04-17 12:46 ` Paolo Bonzini

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