Re: somebody dropped a (warning) bomb

Kumar Gala
2007-02-08T16:37:58Z

On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> Just did a pull for the first time since 2.6.20, and a /megaton/ of new
> warnings have appeared, on Fedora Core 6/x86-64 "make allyesconfig".
>
> All of the new warnings spew appear to be "pointers differ in signedness"
> warning. Granted, we should care about these, but even a "silent" build
> (make -s) now spews far more output than any human could possibly care about,
> and digging important nuggets out of all this noise is beginning to require
> automated tools rather than just human eyes.

I think this is because of changes to Kbuild and the ongoing discussion
related to it. On PPC I see that we are losing options via $(call
cc-option..)

- k