--- a/Makefile	2011-06-08 20:54:07.000000000 +0200
+++ b/Makefile	2011-06-08 20:53:19.000000000 +0200
@@ -605,6 +605,9 @@
 # conserve stack if available
 KBUILD_CFLAGS   += $(call cc-option,-fconserve-stack)
 
+# turn off the noise with gcc-4.6
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -Wno-unused-but-set-variable)
+
 # Add user supplied CPPFLAGS, AFLAGS and CFLAGS as the last assignments
 # But warn user when we do so
 warn-assign = \