Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 26 Feb 2006 18:41:23 +0100 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: Building 100 kernels; we suck at dependencies and drown in warnings |
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On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 06:29:54PM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote: > On 2/26/06, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote: >... > > > >From 100 kernel builds there was a total of 16152 warnings and 645 of those > > > are unique warnings, the rest are duplicates. > > > > > > We are drowning in warnings people. Sure, many of the warnings are due to > > > gcc getting something wrong and shouldn't really be emitted, but a lot of > > > them point to actual problems or deficiencies (I obviously haven't looked > > > at them all in detail yet, so take that with a grain of salt please). > > >... > > > > It's well-known that BROKEN_ON_SMP drivers often spit 50 warnings in one > > warning. If you remove the dozen worst drivers the numbers should look > > much better. > > > Better yet, let's fix the warnings.
It's never bad if someone converts drivers still using cli/sti.
Unfortunately, this is non-trivial...
> > Not that our current situation was perfect, but the number of warnings > > in .config's people usually use isn't that bad. > > I agree it's not too bad for most people. The point of my post was > mostly a "call to arms" trying to get people interrested in fixing all > the warnings and build errors we have.
I'm agreeing that this is a good idea, I simply disagreed with your "we suck at..." point, since although we can become better we aren't that bad.
> There's a lot of focus on implementing new features - and that's great > - but there's little emphasis on fixing the problems we have and > already know about - I'd like to see that change, and my post was > mainly an attempt at making that happen :)
IMHO, the real problems we already know about are not warnings, they are the ones listed at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/
And in these cases, the bugs in unmaintained areas of the kernel like APM or the floppy driver are the worst ones.
> Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
cu Adrian
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