Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 26 Feb 2006 19:08:41 +0100 | From | "Jesper Juhl" <> | Subject | Re: Building 100 kernels; we suck at dependencies and drown in warnings |
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On 2/26/06, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote: > 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. > Ok, maybe that was a bit too stong wording.
> > 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. >
Agreed, those bugs should be fixed as well. Unfortunately most of them are beyond my abilities, so I tend to focus on the stuff that I see is broken and that I am actually able to help fix. :-)
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