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Subject: Re: Two problems with 4.8
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On Wed, Apr 09, 2003, Gregory Bond wrote:
> [Re: compiler warning msgs from kernel builds]
> 
> > Most of them don't represent real problems, but it wouldn't be a
> > bad idea to clean some of them up.
> 
> I've submitted several PRs with patches to remove kernel compile
> warnings from -STABLE releases (going back to 2.2.6 IIRC).  To my
> knowledge, no-one has ever bothered to look at them; certainly they
> were never committed.  I just gave up about the time 4.1 became -STABLE.
> 
> It might not be a bad idea, but it seems no committer cares enough!

Unfortunately, the task of fixing warnings tends to fall to the
bottom of most people's priority queues.  That's partly because
there are enough real bugs out there to keep people busy, and
partly because gcc is a rather bad bug-finding tool as bug-finding
tools go.