Re: [PATCH 1/2] AFS: Fix interminable loop in afs_write_back_from_locked_page()

On Fri, 11 May 2007 10:49:23 +0100 David Howells [off-list ref] wrote:

Andrew Morton [off-list ref] wrote:

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Following bug was uncovered by compiling with '-W' flag:

gcc -W finds a number of fairly scary bugs.

Do you mean in my code specifically?  Or in the kernel in general?

In general.

 As far as
I can tell -W only finds an eye-glazingly large quantity of 'unused parameter'
warnings in AFS and AF_RXRPC.

Yes, it's a shame that there doesn't seem to be a fine-grained way of
turning on -W's useful bits.