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[Joe Buck]

Andrew Morton wrote:

> A useful exercise would be to compile the kernel with `-W' and filter
> out all the noise.   I'll do that tonight.
...
> It was hilarious.  Nailed about sixty kernel bugs, some of them
> drop-dead box killers.
> 
> Please, give us more granular control over the -W warnings!!

Could you be more specific?  Which warnings do you want to enable and
suppress?  There's already a large set of -Wxxx and -Wno-xxx flags.
What's missing?