[Q] warning BUG() related fixing and janitors question

[Ezequiel García <elezegarcia@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dan,

I would like to know better about the janitors list, and what kind of
patches are handled here.
I've found a number of warnings in my building and I'm not sure where to
send patches and
what git tree should I take, since the warnings appear in a wide number of
subsystems.

1.
For instance, in kernel/sched/core.c

static inline struct task_struct *
pick_next_task(struct rq *rq)
{
    /* snip */
    BUG(); /* the idle class will always have a runnable task */
}

You can see that after BUG there is no return statement, which will produce
a compilation
warning you disable BUG() and it gets defined to nothing.

There are several of these warnings here and there, I guess as a consequence
of BUG() macro.

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2.
Another one is flat_set_persistent() which is only IMO properly defined in
arch/sh/. The current
definition produces a warning in other architectures if binary flat format
is used.

So, I guess I should send a patch to each arch-specific list, right? using
arch-specific git trees?
I would like to have just one git tree, and not ten :)

Thanks for your time,
Ezequiel.
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