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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kobject: Suppress compiler warning with gcc 3.x
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Le jeudi 03 juin 2010 à 16:57 +0800, Américo Wang a écrit :

> 
> Yeah.
> 
> However, this compile warning only appears in gcc 3.x
> and it seems it's a fault of gcc 3.x, not the code. I am wondering
> if we need to fix it.
> 

I believe gcc-3 was born before the code you mention.

We can keep ability to compile kernel on old gcc for very litle care.

Lets do it please, unless there is a real show-stopper, not because
we feel gcc-3 is 'old'