Re: [PATCH] block/genhd.c: fix sparse warning

[Al Viro]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 06:46:32AM +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote:
> 2009/4/16 H Hartley Sweeten <hartleys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Fix sparse warning in block/genhd.c.
> >
> > ?? ?? ?? ??warning: symbol '__mptr' shadows an earlier one
> >
> > Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Just a heads up: There seems to be some sort of consensus that this
> type of patch title is not a very good one. (What about "remove
> variable shadowing"?)

Indeed.  Speaking of other kind of unpleasantness, could you please
configure your mail-luser-agent to *NOT* replace tabs with series
of spaces/nbsp?  That crap is very annoying - these strings of
U+00A0 U+00A0 U+00A0 et sodding cetera are gratuitously making life
painful for non-UTF8 terminals.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/