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

[Weijie Yuan <wy@wyuan.org>]

Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> writes:

> Weijie Yuan <wy@wyuan.org> writes:
> 
> > Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> writes:
> >
> >> 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.
> >
> > That's sure and that wasn't what I intended. 
> >
> > I'd be happy to do the work, but putting myself in their shoes, I worry
> > they might think, "Someone from nowhere, who isn't familiar with our
> > development process/workflow, is sending patches and just adding noise.
> > It would be quicker and easier if they simply pointed out the problems
> > and let us fix them ourselves."
> >
> > For example, last week I was about to send a small patch when,
> > fortunately, I searched lore one more time and found that an equivalent
> > patch had already been posted to their list, but hadn't been merged yet.
> >
> > These warnings span many subsystems, and I worry that sending patches
> > before I understand their respective workflows might come across as a
> > bit impolite: "We already have this fix in our development tree; you
> > should have checked first."
> 
> Well-intentioned patches are rarely seen as impolite.
> 
> It's always worth looking at linux-next before trying to fix something;
> if there is a fix in their tree, it should really be there as well.

Thanks, learned a lot indeed. It turns out that what I was worried about
already had a solution. Will take a look at linux-next each time later.

Thanks!