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On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 1:53 AM, Sebastian Wiesner |
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<basti.wiesner@×××.net> wrote: |
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> You were ever able to built a kernel without warnings?! You certainly must |
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> have some magic in your hands ;) Kernel developers always had a dismissive |
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> attitude towards compiler warnings, non-serious warnings are rarely fixed. |
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Hmm. Looks like I was kidding myself, probably not paying attention so long as |
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nothing I needed actually broke. Oddly enough, I find this reassuring. |
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>> So what's a poor user to do? Believe the first poster responding with |
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>> (apparent) authority? Maybe. I'm just going to stay away for a while |
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>> and see what shakes out. |
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> Obviously, despite all the warnings, a proper kernel binary was created. |
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> You wouldn't stop using a software just because of all the warnings, that |
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> are issued by a normal emerge, so why to are you taking warnings during a |
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> kernel build so much more serious? |
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Because of a mistaken impression I had. |
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>> >> All that being said, the compilation completes, and I can boot it. I |
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>> >> don't know the cause, but I have been unable to get vmware-server |
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>> >> running on it, and I'm going back to the previous kernel for that |
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>> >> reason. |
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>> > complain to vmware - it's their closed source crap that doesn't work. |
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>> I have less clout with vmware than I have with the kernel team, I |
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>> would guess, because I don't pay either one, but at least the kernel |
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>> team are not in business to get money from me. But reasonable |
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>> virtualization is essential to some of my own projects, and I have to |
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>> stick with it. If I have to, I'll learn a different tools set, but |
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>> it's not something I take up lightly. |
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> And what are the kernel developers supposed to do regarding vmware? And |
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> should a closed source software, that's most likely only used by a minority |
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> of Gentoo users, really stop all the other users from profiting from a |
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> newer and probably faster and more stable kernel? |
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What the devs do is not for me to say. I just said what I will do, |
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and asked for |
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clarity from others on this list. I got that, along with an object |
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lesson in being |
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more careful about what I put forward as "fact". |
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However, may I point out that a great deal of the kernel is in support |
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of minorities |
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of users? Especially in the device drivers. There may not be another machine |
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on the planet with the exact mix of devices and features in my kernel. |
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That is not, |
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I hope, a reason for you to squelch my concerns, since the same is true of |
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a great many individual users here. Minorities may collectively even |
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be the majority. |
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |