Re: Linux 2.6.19-rc4

[Martin J. Bligh]

> But I've become innoculated against warnings, just because we have too 
> many of the totally useless noise about deprecation and crud, and ppc has 
> it's own set of bogus compiler-and-linker-generated warnings..
>
> At some point we should get rid of all the "politeness" warnings, just 
> because they can end up hiding the _real_ ones.

Yay! Couldn't agree more. Does this mean you'll take patches for all the
uninitialized variable crap from gcc 4.x ?

> "pm_register is deprecated" etc - I get almost a hundred lines of warnings 
> in my default build (and half of those are sadly due to powerpc binutils, 
> that I can't do anythign about: "section .init.text exceeds stub group 
> size" etc, which is harmless _other_ than the fact that it helped hide the 
> real warnings just because I've grown too used to not looking too 
> closely).

Doesn't turning off CONFIG_PM_LEGACY fix those? it did for me.

M.

PS. I still think -Werror is a good plan. But I acknowledge that's
fairly extreme.
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