On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 22:47 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > 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. Even by the exalted standards of LKML which sometimes seems to make a virtue of misinformation, four wrong statements in twenty seven words is pretty impressive ... I salute you! James - 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
