Re: [2.6 patch] mark virt_to_bus/bus_to_virt as __deprecated oni386

From: David S. Miller
Date: Fri Nov 18 2005 - 20:20:44 EST


From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 01:34:35 +0100

> On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 08:03:54PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > The deprecated warnings are so easy to filter out, so I don't think
> > > noise is a good argument. I see them all the time too.
> >
> > That works for you and me. But how to train all those people who write
> > warny patches?
>
> Would it work to use -Werror only on some parts of the kernel.
> Thinking of teaching kbuild to recursively apply a flags to gcc.
>
> Then we could say that kernel/ should be warning free (to a start).

Many ports already add -Werror to the CFLAGS via their
arch/${ARCH}/* makefiles.
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