On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 00:17, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 05:37:42PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 17:18, Vorobiev Dmitri wrote: >> >> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:26, Julia Lawall wrote: >> >> you'll get a >> >> warning in C about the assignment, but you wont get a build failure, >> > >> > ...unless you compile with -Werror, which frequently the case. >> >> anyone crazy enough to build with -Werror is crazy enough to send in a fix ;) > > Hm, have you noted that some arches have that flag enabled in their > build? i dont see anyone building things beyond a select dir or two (none of which contain platform drivers) with -Werror. where are you seeing this ? besides, while using -Werror in development may make sense, sticking it into the release for end users is just plain mean. gcc is so unreliable with warnings across versions. -mike -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
