These warnings printed for these driver seem to be gone with Karmic.
See http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-
ppa/mainline/daily/2009-09-01/BUILD.LOG .
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Status: New = Fix Released
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not an issue with gcc, the code should be changed or the warnings turned
off
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Status: New = Invalid
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The compiler is not faulty, but rather, more paranoid that stock
compilers. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CompilerFlags for more details.
For the specific issues with the kernel, those warnings should be fixed
in upstream (why expend *printf CPU cycles on a string you don't want to
be
Tell the upstream guys to fix the bugs!
Or tell Ubuntu kernel team to fix some bugs and send them upstreams.
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Sourcepackagename: gcc-defaults = linux
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Status: Won't Fix = New
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This affects Ubuntu 9.04 as well.
The comment OP is referring to can be found in a LKML thread here:
http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2008/11/20/4215134
Clearly this is a relatively harmless message - especially given the fact that
mainline doesn't even see it.
However, it
