Re: Build regressions/improvements in v3.0-rc3

[Tomas Winkler]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Below is the list of build error/warning regressions/improvements in
> v3.0-rc3[1] compared to v2.6.39[2].
>
> Summarized:
> Â- build errors: +21/-66
> Â- build warnings: +202/-421
>
> JFYI, when comparing v3.0-rc3 to v3.0-rc2[3], the summaries are:
> Â- build errors: +20/-45
> Â- build warnings: +92/-101
>
> Note that there may be false regressions, as some logs are incomplete.
> Still, they're build errors/warnings.
>
> In addition, I put the verbose summary at
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/geert/linux-log/v3.0-rc3.summary.gz
> so you can easily find out for which configs and architectures the
> errors/warnings you're interested in are happening.
>
> Happy fixing! ;-)
>

> Â-
> Â+ drivers/staging/mei/interrupt.c: warning: 'buffer' may be used uninitialized in this function: Â=> 198

This is a real issue, but I'm not able to reproduce this warning in my
compilation environment, even with sparse and CF="-Wall"
Any hints

Thanks
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