Re: Look Ma, da kernel is b0rken

[Alan Cox]

> While I appreciate your confidence, I don't notice quite a few new
> warnings (because there are so many of them already :-().  Is there some
> reason to not turn this on in our "normal" builds?  Does it produce many
> false positives?  What compiler version is required?

I've not seen any false positives from it yet. Unlike some of the
variable related ones it seems pretty solid.

> I also currently don't carry patches that only ever appear in linux-next
> (well, not intentionally anyway).  I assume it would require a patch to
> the Makefile(s) to turn this on.

Yes. I guess it belongs to the build scripts maintainers ?

Alan
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