workaround this bug: cc1: warnings being treated as errors arch/mips/kernel/../../../fs/binfmt_elf.c: In function ‘vma_dump_size’: arch/mips/kernel/../../../fs/binfmt_elf.c:1202: warning: ‘word’ may be used uninitialized in this function --- a/arch/mips/kernel/Makefile 2009-02-16 11:25:13.000000000 +0000 +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/Makefile 2009-02-16 11:25:23.000000000 +0000 @@ -100,6 +100,5 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_MIPS_CPUFREQ) += cpufreq/ -EXTRA_CFLAGS += -Werror CPPFLAGS_vmlinux.lds := $(KBUILD_CFLAGS)