From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: dwalker@mvista.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] sys_semctl gcc 4.1 warning fix
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 15:03:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060510150321.11262b24.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060510162106.GC27946@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Don't. Fix. Correct. Code.
>
> Ever. Because sooner or later you will paper over real bug.
I occasionally receive patches which generate new warnings, and those
warnings flag real bugs. The developer simply missing the warning amongst
all the other crap.
It seems to especialy affect ia64 developers, whose build is especially
noisy.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-10 22:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-10 2:56 Daniel Walker
2006-05-10 10:34 ` Alan Cox
2006-05-10 14:31 ` Daniel Walker
2006-05-10 15:09 ` Alan Cox
2006-05-10 15:06 ` Daniel Walker
2006-05-10 15:24 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-05-10 16:24 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-05-10 17:18 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-05-10 17:45 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-05-10 18:27 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-05-10 19:07 ` Serge Belyshev
2006-05-10 20:24 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-05-10 20:35 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-05-10 20:36 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-05-10 20:53 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-05-10 19:20 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-05-10 19:49 ` Daniel Walker
2006-05-10 20:44 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-05-10 21:11 ` Daniel Walker
2006-05-10 21:20 ` Al Viro
2006-05-10 21:33 ` Daniel Walker
2006-05-10 21:39 ` Al Viro
2006-05-10 21:45 ` Daniel Walker
2006-05-10 21:48 ` Al Viro
2006-05-11 6:36 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-05-10 15:39 ` Alan Cox
2006-05-10 15:38 ` Daniel Walker
2006-05-10 16:21 ` Al Viro
2006-05-10 16:37 ` Daniel Walker
2006-05-10 16:42 ` Al Viro
2006-05-10 17:25 ` Daniel Walker
2006-05-10 19:55 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-05-10 22:03 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-05-10 22:10 ` Al Viro
2006-05-10 22:31 ` David S. Miller
2006-05-10 22:45 ` Al Viro
2006-05-10 23:05 ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-10 23:20 ` Al Viro
2006-05-10 23:45 ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-11 1:28 ` Al Viro
2006-05-11 8:11 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-05-11 10:07 ` [PATCH -mm] introduce a false positive macro Steven Rostedt
2006-05-11 20:40 ` [PATCH -mm] sys_semctl gcc 4.1 warning fix Adrian Bunk
2006-05-11 21:14 ` Al Viro
2006-05-10 23:06 ` Roland Dreier
2006-05-10 22:30 ` David S. Miller
2006-05-11 2:58 ` Mike Galbraith
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