Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] hwmon: ltc4282: add support for the LTC4282 chip

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On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 9:45 AM Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 29/11/2023 09:35, Nuno Sá wrote:

> > world. If we are now going to ask to run smatch, cocci, sparse and so on, we will
> > scare even more developers from the community... I mean, the bots are also in place
>
> This is not related to Linux at all.

Smatch, main author Dan Carpenter
Coccinelle, main author Julia Lawall
Sparse, main author Linus Torvalds

To be fair I think these tools has quite a lot to do with Linux, being developed
for the kernel as the primary use case, by Linux kernel contributors.

> When you develop any C or C++ code,
> you run these tools. Upstream or downstream, does not matter. Why would
> you not use automated, free and easy tools to detect errors in your
> code? It's just a matter of professional approach to your code.

This I agree with. We just happen to have some especially
talented C developers who write some novel tooling.

(I think developers should be able to rely on robots to run them though,
we all seem to agree on that.)

Yours,
Linus Walleij





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