Re: How to attempt to gradually eliminate the compilation output?

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>]

Weijie Yuan <kernel@wyuan.org> writes:

> Recently I've sent several patches to fix warnings.  But since I am not
> familiar with the actual codes of theirs, I'm not confident enough to
> touch some parts, but only the most obvious ones.
>
> Since this is a goal that Jon has spent years for, I'm wondering if it's
> possible to periodically send out some email notifications, which will
> use the file paths from the compiled output to find the recipients and
> kindly ask them to to deal with these annoying outputs? Perhaps we could
> use a script to do this.?

I think that nagging others to fix warnings is not going to make anybody
happy.  The best we can do in that regard is to try to prevent the
addition of new ones.  Beyond that, it is far better to send a patch
than a request for somebody else to make one.  If nothing else, an
incorrect patch is usually the best way to get somebody else to create a
correct one :)

Thanks,

jon