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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] AFS: Fix interminable loop in afs_write_back_from_locked_page()
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 02:58:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070511025822.a5aa5240.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8792.1178876963@redhat.com>

On Fri, 11 May 2007 10:49:23 +0100 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:

> Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
> > > Following bug was uncovered by compiling with '-W' flag:
> > 
> > gcc -W finds a number of fairly scary bugs.
> 
> Do you mean in my code specifically?  Or in the kernel in general?

In general.

>  As far as
> I can tell -W only finds an eye-glazingly large quantity of 'unused parameter'
> warnings in AFS and AF_RXRPC.

Yes, it's a shame that there doesn't seem to be a fine-grained way of
turning on -W's useful bits.


  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-11  9:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-10 14:33 [PATCH 1/2] AFS: Fix interminable loop in afs_write_back_from_locked_page() David Howells
2007-05-10 14:33 ` [PATCH 2/2] AFS: Fix a couple of problems with unlinking AFS files David Howells
2007-05-10 23:19 ` [PATCH 1/2] AFS: Fix interminable loop in afs_write_back_from_locked_page() Andrew Morton
2007-05-11  9:49 ` David Howells
2007-05-11  9:58   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-05-11 10:03   ` David Howells
2007-05-11  9:57 ` David Howells

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