Re: Linux 2.6.19-rc4

Guennadi Liakhovetski
2006-11-01T20:26:17Z

> > On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 08:34:23 PST, Ray Lee said:
> > > On 10/31/06, Martin J. Bligh <mbligh@google.com> wrote:
> > > > > At some point we should get rid of all the "politeness" warnings, just
> > > > > because they can end up hiding the _real_ ones.
> > > >
> > > > Yay! Couldn't agree more. Does this mean you'll take patches for all the
> > > > uninitialized variable crap from gcc 4.x ?
> > >
> > > What would be useful in the short term is a tool that shows only the
> > > new warnings that didn't exist in the last point release.

Would it be possible to create a new verbosity level like V=2 to hide
those "politeness" warnings so that by default everybody still would see
all of them, but those needing to track regressions could use it and only
see severe ones?

Thanks
Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski