Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 22 Nov 2020 14:56:35 +0000 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] MAINTAINERS tag for cleanup robot |
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On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 06:46:46AM -0800, Tom Rix wrote: > > On 11/21/20 7:23 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 08:50:58AM -0800, trix@redhat.com wrote: > >> The fixer review is > >> https://reviews.llvm.org/D91789 > >> > >> A run over allyesconfig for x86_64 finds 62 issues, 5 are false positives. > >> The false positives are caused by macros passed to other macros and by > >> some macro expansions that did not have an extra semicolon. > >> > >> This cleans up about 1,000 of the current 10,000 -Wextra-semi-stmt > >> warnings in linux-next. > > Are any of them not false-positives? It's all very well to enable > > stricter warnings, but if they don't fix any bugs, they're just churn. > > > While enabling additional warnings may be a side effect of this effort > > the primary goal is to set up a cleaning robot. After that a refactoring robot.
Why do we need such a thing? Again, it sounds like more churn. It's really annoying when I'm working on something important that gets derailed by pointless churn. Churn also makes it harder to backport patches to earlier kernels.
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