On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 7:57 AM, Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I absolutely agree that these have been annoying. However, they've also > been useful in the past to identify new flags used in the kernel and > other projects that we may need to actually act on, rather than just > ignore. I think the issue is that the warning is useful for _sparse_ developers, but not to actual users. So I do think the warning itself should be off by default - but maybe the "known but ignored" table should exist so that sparse people can say "is there a new attribute that I need to look at"? Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sparse" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html