On Feb 1 2008 03:21, Harvey Harrison wrote: >> >> Question is: why do people keep adding new ones when they are so easy to >> detect and fix? >> >> Asnwer: because neither they nor their patch integrators are doing adequate >> compilation testing. > >[...] >Unless they break the build, or if there currently are 0 and they make >it non-zero, people seem not to care....sad. Probably the same for >sparse/checkpatch, "there's plenty already, I can't be bothered to look" checkpatch does not parse C, it uses heuristical regexes. That makes it very different from sparse or the section mismatch finder which do not output false positives. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html