[ewg] Compiler warnings in backport patches

[Jeff Squyres]

Is there really no existing OFA or OFED mandate to produce warning- 
free code?

I find that somewhat surprising / disappointing.  Can we make one?



On Mar 22, 2007, at 3:09 AM, Betsy Zeller wrote:

> The latest version of kernel backport patches for OFED 1.2 don't  
> compile
> cleanly - that is, they compile with a lot of warnings. In OFED 1.0  
> and
> 1.1, there were far less warnings. Compiling with a lot of warnings
> makes it difficult to notice when an important one comes up, and this
> just doesn't seem like a good idea for the kind of complex development
> we are doing.
>
> Are the owners of OFED 1.2 backport patches  willing to fix these for
> OFED 1.2? I realize that fixing these will require some amount of  
> fiddly
> and annoying casting of data structures, but it really seems like  
> right
> thing to do.
>
> Regards, Betsy
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Jeff Squyres
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