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    Disable "maybe-uninitialized" warning globally · 63f4bb7d
    Linus Torvalds authored
    commit 6e8d666e 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: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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