From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:47:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]:62621 "EHLO dl5rb.ham-radio-op.net") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20022346AbXKHJrK (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Nov 2007 09:47:10 +0000 Received: from denk.linux-mips.net (denk.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by dl5rb.ham-radio-op.net (8.14.1/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lA89l99A010871; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 09:47:09 GMT Received: (from ralf@localhost) by denk.linux-mips.net (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id lA89l8jf010870; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 09:47:08 GMT Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 09:47:08 +0000 From: Ralf Baechle To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: Florian Fainelli , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: [PATCH][au1000] Remove useless EXTRA_CFLAGS Message-ID: <20071108094708.GA10665@linux-mips.org> References: <200710252108.43357.florian.fainelli@telecomint.eu> <20071029151010.GA3953@linux-mips.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 17445 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 12:41:29PM +0000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > And to ensure it will stay that way I'll keep -Werror. It seems only > > little PITAs like this keep everybody on their toes :-) > > Yeah... If only GCC had no bugs and always had a clue of what to warn > about... The least of all problems. As of 2.6.20-rc2-git2 we had 137 warnings in MIPS specific code of a total of 218 for the kernel and 44 for modules - that's a insane 52%. And people happily added more crappy code because they didn't not even _notice_ the warnings some of which indeed were bugs. Compare to 2.6.23 - 13 warnings for MIPS specific code of a total of 48 warnings and another 23 warnings for all the modules. For a codebase which overall had grown by half a million lines between those releases. Ralf