Re: [PATCH 1/28] drivers/base/platform.c: Drop return value from platform_driver remove functions

[Mike Frysinger]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 00:17, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 05:37:42PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 17:18, Vorobiev Dmitri wrote:
>> >> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:26, Julia Lawall wrote:
>> >>  you'll get a
>> >> warning in C about the assignment, but you wont get a build failure,
>> >
>> > ...unless you compile with -Werror, which frequently the case.
>>
>> anyone crazy enough to build with -Werror is crazy enough to send in a fix ;)
>
> Hm, have you noted that some arches have that flag enabled in their
> build?

i dont see anyone building things beyond a select dir or two (none of
which contain platform drivers) with -Werror.  where are you seeing
this ?

besides, while using -Werror in development may make sense, sticking
it into the release for end users is just plain mean.  gcc is so
unreliable with warnings across versions.
-mike
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