Disable "maybe-uninitialized" warning globally
authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 27 Jul 2016 20:17:41 +0000 (13:17 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 30 Sep 2016 08:18:35 +0000 (10:18 +0200)
commit3da2a4cb6e909dd45be3009379f0d29b9a9e369d
tree882cd3888f3c84ca36a95de26b448b2b24484fa0
parent7cd4d22328dc4a019e00508c66ecd4cd837597b5
Disable "maybe-uninitialized" warning globally

commit 6e8d666e925333c55378e8d5540a8a9ee0eea9c5 upstream.

Several build configurations had already disabled this warning because
it generates a lot of false positives.  But some had not, and it was
still enabled for "allmodconfig" builds, for example.

Looking at the warnings produced, every single one I looked at was a
false positive, and the warnings are frequent enough (and big enough)
that they can easily hide real problems that you don't notice in the
noise generated by -Wmaybe-uninitialized.

The warning is good in theory, but this is a classic case of a warning
that causes more problems than the warning can solve.

If gcc gets better at avoiding false positives, we may be able to
re-enable this warning.  But as is, we're better off without it, and I
want to be able to see the *real* warnings.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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