[PATCHv2 00/19] ARM: common warning fixes

On Saturday 26 January 2013, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:43:59PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

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I will get to those once this series is sorted out.
Since there are no interdepencies between the patches,
my preference is to have them applied by the individual
subsystem maintainers. Anything that has not at
least made it into linux-next by the next merge window
and has not received a 'NAK' or been obsoleted by
another patch, I plan to submit as part of an arm-soc
branch for 3.9.

And, last night we have new warnings.  My allnoconfigs no longer build
cleanly because of new vexpress section mismatches in the mfd code.

Yes, I already sent a patch yesterday. The problem was a regression
that came in through the arm-soc tree unfortunately, but I can easily
fix it then.

It seems to me that you're on a loosing battle unless you test the tree
and drop code before propaging it out if it adds new warnings... force
the pain of these warnings down on to others so that they learn to create
better code in the first place.

That was always the idea, right now I mainly try to get back to the almost
clean state I had some time ago.

The largest problem right now is gcc-4.7, which adds a lot of new bogus
warnings.

	Arnd