Re: [PATCH -mm] sys_semctl gcc 4.1 warning fix

[Al Viro]

On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 03:03:21PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Don't.  Fix.  Correct.  Code.
> > 
> >  Ever.  Because sooner or later you will paper over real bug.
> 
> I occasionally receive patches which generate new warnings, and those
> warnings flag real bugs.  The developer simply missing the warning amongst
> all the other crap.
> 
> It seems to especialy affect ia64 developers, whose build is especially
> noisy.

I know.  But that's the argument in favour of using diff, not shutting the
bogus warnings up...
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