From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161017AbWGJNAV (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jul 2006 09:00:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161024AbWGJNAV (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jul 2006 09:00:21 -0400 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.184]:43291 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161017AbWGJNAU (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jul 2006 09:00:20 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=BtCsQwDzmYljxFryiTvp7N9FWUcbYV3MLp87c2pVwjrlwC0hjAzrixu3Pqk7eb8X5NF0F887UZrRPinXmDBfiPvn9xT2qR2hHN/jp94xHKgaFi8cG5tJVanaBU9QLin3zLmqZYQZgFTuSS3QanXT55udVvD0dZRZ0sRGzfF3FTc= Message-ID: <9a8748490607100600w125700a0n8a77870998704342@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:00:19 +0200 From: "Jesper Juhl" To: "Arjan van de Ven" Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/9] -Wshadow: Making the kernel build clean with -Wshadow Cc: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" In-Reply-To: <1152535999.4874.36.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <9a8748490607100548o14dbe684j40bde90eb19a7558@mail.gmail.com> <1152535999.4874.36.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10/07/06, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > So, what do people say? > > > Hi, > > I'm just about always in favor of having automated tools help us find > bugs. However... can you give an indication of how many real bugs you > have encountered? If it's "mostly noise" all the time.. then it's maybe > not worth the effort... while if you find real bugs then it's obviously > worthwhile to go through this. > For the parts I've done so far, the only "real" issue is one case of a superfluous variable. But I'm far from done going through all the warnings. -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html