Re: [PATCH 3.18 104/105] IB/nes: Fix a compiler warning

[Joe Perches]

On Mon, 2018-09-24 at 22:39 +0000, Sasha Levin wrote:
> The reasoning behind it was similar to the "no warnings" reasoning of
> upstream: there might be real issues hiding in the sea of "harmless"
> warnings, so we want to get rid of all of them to catch real issues.

I believe this to be a poor idea for -stable acceptance.

It's impossible to know when gcc or any other compiler
would decide to add any new warning.