From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: dwalker@mvista.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] sys_semctl gcc 4.1 warning fix
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 23:10:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060510221024.GH27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060510150321.11262b24.akpm@osdl.org>
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...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-10 22:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-10 2:56 [PATCH -mm] sys_semctl gcc 4.1 warning fix Daniel Walker
2006-05-10 10:34 ` Alan Cox
2006-05-10 14:31 ` Daniel Walker
2006-05-10 15:09 ` Alan Cox
2006-05-10 15:06 ` Daniel Walker
2006-05-10 15:24 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-05-10 16:24 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-05-10 17:18 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-05-10 17:45 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-05-10 18:27 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-05-10 19:07 ` Serge Belyshev
2006-05-10 20:24 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-05-10 20:35 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-05-10 20:36 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-05-10 20:53 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-05-10 19:20 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-05-10 19:49 ` Daniel Walker
2006-05-10 20:44 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-05-10 21:11 ` Daniel Walker
2006-05-10 21:20 ` Al Viro
2006-05-10 21:33 ` Daniel Walker
2006-05-10 21:39 ` Al Viro
2006-05-10 21:45 ` Daniel Walker
2006-05-10 21:48 ` Al Viro
2006-05-11 6:36 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-05-10 15:39 ` Alan Cox
2006-05-10 15:38 ` Daniel Walker
2006-05-10 16:21 ` Al Viro
2006-05-10 16:37 ` Daniel Walker
2006-05-10 16:42 ` Al Viro
2006-05-10 17:25 ` Daniel Walker
2006-05-10 19:55 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-05-10 22:03 ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-10 22:10 ` Al Viro [this message]
2006-05-10 22:31 ` David S. Miller
2006-05-10 22:45 ` Al Viro
2006-05-10 23:05 ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-10 23:20 ` Al Viro
2006-05-10 23:45 ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-11 1:28 ` Al Viro
2006-05-11 8:11 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-05-11 10:07 ` [PATCH -mm] introduce a false positive macro Steven Rostedt
2006-05-11 20:40 ` [PATCH -mm] sys_semctl gcc 4.1 warning fix Adrian Bunk
2006-05-11 21:14 ` Al Viro
2006-05-10 23:06 ` Roland Dreier
2006-05-10 22:30 ` David S. Miller
2006-05-11 2:58 ` Mike Galbraith
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