Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] drop the concept of 'known-but-ignored' attributes

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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
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