Re: Linux 2.6.19-rc4

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 09:26:13PM +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> > > On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 08:34:23 PST, Ray Lee said:
> > > > On 10/31/06, Martin J. Bligh <mbligh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > > 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 ?
> > > > 
> > > > What would be useful in the short term is a tool that shows only the
> > > > new warnings that didn't exist in the last point release.
> 
> Would it be possible to create a new verbosity level like V=2 to hide 
> those "politeness" warnings so that by default everybody still would see 
> all of them, but those needing to track regressions could use it and only 
> see severe ones?

I suggest you try out make V=2 one day.
It does not compress warnings but tells you why something got rebuild.

	Sam
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