Re: [PATCH -mm] sys_semctl gcc 4.1 warning fix

Al Viro <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Don't.  Fix.  Correct.  Code.
> 
>  Ever.  Because sooner or later you will paper over real bug.

I occasionally receive patches which generate new warnings, and those
warnings flag real bugs.  The developer simply missing the warning amongst
all the other crap.

It seems to especialy affect ia64 developers, whose build is especially
noisy.
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