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From: David Ford <david+cert@blue-labs.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Thunder from the hill <thunder@ngforever.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.4.19-pre10-ac2, compile warnings/failures
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 10:15:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D060602.20409@blue-labs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D0518BF.4090404@blue-labs.org> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0206101855290.17269-100000@hawkeye.luckynet.adm> <20020611060353.GA6711@kroah.com>

It's been brought up over and over the last couple of years.  GCC 
started warning about it quite a while ago and it's been named as a bad 
form.  Patches to fix various things have been submitted sporadically 
for a long time as well.  Future versions of GCC will mark it as an error.

David

Greg KH wrote:

>On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 06:59:36PM -0600, Thunder from the hill wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, David Ford wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>People, please don't do things like:
>>>
>>>[bad use of doublequotes]
>>>
>>>Patches keep going in to fix this.
>>>
>>>[good use of doublequotes]
>>>      
>>>
>>The same applies to 2.5. Can someone write a perl script that treats it so 
>>anonymous that it can find these buggy places?
>>    
>>
>
>And could someone actually _tell_ the maintainers of these drivers that
>there is a problem?  And what compiler version causes it?
>
>This the first I've heard of this problem.
>
>greg k-h
>  
>


  reply	other threads:[~2002-06-11 14:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-10 21:23 2.4.19-pre10-ac2, compile warnings/failures David Ford
2002-06-11  0:59 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-06-11  6:03   ` Greg KH
2002-06-11 14:15     ` David Ford [this message]
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.21.0206101811180.364-100000@inbetween.blorf.net>
2002-06-11  1:22 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-06-11  3:05   ` David Ford

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