Re: [PATCH -mm] sys_semctl gcc 4.1 warning fix

Al Viro
2006-05-10T22:10:29Z

On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 03:03:21PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Don't. Fix. Correct. Code.
> >
> > Ever. Because sooner or later you will paper over real bug.
>
> I occasionally receive patches which generate new warnings, and those
> warnings flag real bugs. The developer simply missing the warning amongst
> all the other crap.
>
> It seems to especialy affect ia64 developers, whose build is especially
> noisy.

I know. But that's the argument in favour of using diff, not shutting the
bogus warnings up...