From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
willy@linux.intel.com, kkeil@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove #warnings for longstanding conditions.
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 05:22:31 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071025112231.GL27248@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <03231528cf69b4194111178db23a7a387a573cb7.1193299380.git.jeff@garzik.org>
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 04:06:15AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> drivers/scsi/advansys.c:71:2: warning: #warning this driver is still
> not properly converted to the DMA API
>
> ...represent conditions that have existed for years, and are duly noted
> in FIXMEs. There does not seem to be much need to warn on every kernel
> build for a driver bug or handicap that has existed for years.
I'll be removing this #warning from advansys when I get rid of the
last bus_to_virt. Which I've already done ... it's just that the
resulting driver works on i386, but crashes parisc, so there's clearly a
bug. I haven't had time to track it down yet. So NACK this patch.
--
Intel are signing my paycheques ... these opinions are still mine
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-25 11:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-25 8:06 [PATCH] sound/oss/sb_common.c: fix casting warning Jeff Garzik
2007-10-25 8:06 ` [PATCH] Permit silencing of __deprecated warnings Jeff Garzik
2007-10-25 8:15 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-25 8:20 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-25 15:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-25 11:02 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-26 3:07 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-25 8:06 ` [PATCH] Remove #warnings for longstanding conditions Jeff Garzik
2007-10-25 9:52 ` Karsten Keil
2007-10-25 11:22 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2007-10-26 2:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-26 2:14 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-10-26 2:19 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-25 8:06 ` [PATCH] ISDN/capidrv: fix casting warning Jeff Garzik
2007-10-25 9:51 ` Karsten Keil
2007-10-26 0:53 ` Jeff Garzik
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