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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	James Bottomley <james.bottomley@steeleye.com>,
	Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] DC395x SCSI driver: Shut up uninitialized variable build warning
Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 16:43:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46DB2070.9010608@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0709030211040.29617@enigma.security.iitk.ac.in>

Satyam Sharma wrote:
> I'll post the info as a reply to the first mail in this series. I have
> fairly recent gcc (4.1.1) and I don't see us dropping support for it in
> the next few years.

What's important is not support lifetime, but whether or not the warning 
persists through version 4.1.2, 4.1.3, etc.

We don't want to add markers for compiler quirks that come and go.

The current markers tend to exist for a class of problems that gcc 
fundamentally has a tough time "seeing."  Different optimizer behaviors 
from compiler version to compiler version are just noise[1].

	Jeff


[1] sometimes quite literally, in the case of compiler warnings.


  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-02 20:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <alpine.LFD.0.999.0709022344550.27844@enigma.security.iitk.ac.i n>
2007-09-02 20:02 ` [-mm patchset] War on warnings Satyam Sharma
2007-09-02 20:04   ` Jesper Juhl
2007-09-02 20:39     ` Satyam Sharma
2007-09-02 20:30       ` Jesper Juhl
2007-09-02 20:07   ` [PATCH -mm] sisusbvga: Fix bug and build warnings Satyam Sharma
2007-09-02 20:11     ` Jesper Juhl
2007-09-02 20:32       ` Satyam Sharma
2007-09-02 20:23         ` Jesper Juhl
2007-09-02 21:18           ` Alistair John Strachan
2007-09-02 21:38             ` Satyam Sharma
2007-09-02 22:27               ` Satyam Sharma
2007-09-09 21:32     ` patch usb-sisusbvga-fix-bug-and-build-warnings.patch added to gregkh-2.6 tree gregkh
2007-09-02 20:09   ` [PATCH -mm] sunrpc svc: Shut up bogus uninitialized variable warning Satyam Sharma
2007-09-02 20:11   ` [PATCH -mm] net/wireless/sysfs.c: Shut up build warning Satyam Sharma
2007-09-02 20:24     ` Johannes Berg
2007-09-02 20:12   ` [PATCH -mm] drivers/usb/serial/bus.c: Fix incompatible pointer type warning Satyam Sharma
2007-09-02 20:13   ` [PATCH -mm] IPS SCSI driver: Check return of scsi_add_host() Satyam Sharma
2007-09-02 20:03     ` Jesper Juhl
2007-09-02 20:32     ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-02 22:39       ` Satyam Sharma
2007-09-02 20:15   ` [PATCH -mm] sb16: Shut up uninitialized var build warning Satyam Sharma
2007-09-02 22:06     ` Rene Herman
2007-09-02 22:34       ` Satyam Sharma
2007-09-20 17:52       ` Denys Vlasenko
2007-09-22  4:20         ` Rene Herman
2007-09-02 20:16   ` [PATCH -mm] drivers/mmc/core/bus.c: Fix unused var warning Satyam Sharma
2007-09-03  9:04     ` Pierre Ossman
2007-09-02 20:18   ` [PATCH -mm] I2O: Fix "defined but not used" build warnings Satyam Sharma
2007-09-02 20:20   ` [PATCH -mm] mpt fusion: Shut up uninitialized variable warnings Satyam Sharma
2007-09-02 20:21   ` [PATCH -mm] es18xx: Shut up uninitialized var build warning Satyam Sharma
2007-09-02 22:14     ` Rene Herman
2007-09-02 20:22   ` [PATCH -mm] drivers/md/: Shut up uninitialized variable warnings Satyam Sharma
2007-09-02 20:34     ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-02 20:57       ` Satyam Sharma
2007-09-02 20:23   ` [PATCH -mm] DC395x SCSI driver: Shut up uninitialized variable build warning Satyam Sharma
2007-09-02 20:23     ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-02 20:49       ` Satyam Sharma
2007-09-02 20:43         ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-09-02 20:24   ` [PATCH -mm] i386 cpuid_count: Fix argument signedness warnings Satyam Sharma

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