From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A893C43382 for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2018 11:38:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D96620877 for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2018 11:38:51 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 0D96620877 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=perches.com Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728670AbeIYRp5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Sep 2018 13:45:57 -0400 Received: from smtprelay0214.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.214]:58653 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726435AbeIYRp4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Sep 2018 13:45:56 -0400 Received: from filter.hostedemail.com (clb03-v110.bra.tucows.net [216.40.38.60]) by smtprelay05.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BB25180622D7; Tue, 25 Sep 2018 11:38:47 +0000 (UTC) X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-HE-Tag: jail58_4c958fbbc2a24 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 1898 Received: from XPS-9350.home (unknown [47.151.153.53]) (Authenticated sender: joe@perches.com) by omf15.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Tue, 25 Sep 2018 11:38:46 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <828b6ebc79b606c3d5304540e66b1f9e47dd30e6.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.18 104/105] IB/nes: Fix a compiler warning From: Joe Perches To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Sasha Levin , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "stable@vger.kernel.org" , Bart Van Assche , Jason Gunthorpe Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2018 04:38:44 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20180925113214.GA1783@kroah.com> References: <20180924113113.268650190@linuxfoundation.org> <20180924113123.002918395@linuxfoundation.org> <6f7ca3c205bada768c3918b1feacbbd5ce23a64d.camel@perches.com> <20180924175902.GB19402@kroah.com> <6d6f31c87b0c9b1a551d352439183c8c9c4df04c.camel@perches.com> <20180924223952.GA9157@sasha-vm> <20180925085558.GA22609@kroah.com> <086cc82aed26b082fbe5eefc0eeae2ec634e4a1a.camel@perches.com> <20180925113214.GA1783@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.28.1-2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2018-09-25 at 13:32 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 04:11:38AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Tue, 2018-09-25 at 10:55 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: [] > > > No warnings is great, > > > > I believe that is not necessarily true. > > For me, it is essencial. [] > > Change to a new compiler version and new warnings could be > > added somewhat arbitrarily. > > That's true, and is why I am stuck at gcc7 at the moment, as gcc8 does > horrid things to older stable kernels :) Your statements conflict.