Re: [PATCH] sched: Remove nested extern

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 08:59:32PM +0000, Rustad, Mark D wrote:
> Because I have found that enabling many warnings helps identify problems
> in code and it has been my standard practice since about 1999 to do so.
> The compiler warnings are really just another form of static analysis,
> and I use it routinely on every compile. Here is how routinely: I have
> W=1 in my environment, W=12 is just too painful. I would change that
> default to W=12 if it wasn't insane to do so.

Many warnings are just plain insane and stupid. They're not helping
anybody. There's a very good reason many are disabled. I'm sure you can
find some entertaining discussions on the topic if you search the LKML
archives.
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