On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 1:24 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 03:11:25PM +0200, SF Markus Elfring wrote: >> > If you restricted yourself to fixing bugs only then you would maybe fix more >> > bugs than you introduce but as it you are making the kernel worse. >> >> Would you like to discuss the statistics for my failure (or success) rate >> a bit more so that involved issues can be clarified in a constructive way? > > It should be that you target 20 bug fixes for each new regression that > you add. > > Since you are just sending clean ups, every bug you introduce sets us > further and further back. There is no hope for improving the kernel > because you are not even trying to fix 20 bugs, only introducing them. > > Once you fix 20 bugs, then you will be even and you can start sending > cleanups again. This is fair. > At the risk of piling on, but hopefully to benefit Markus going forward: I will refrain from merging any more style/checkpatch/"code cleanup" patches from Markus until we start getting real, tested, bug fixes. Sean > regards, > dan carpenter > > _______________________________________________ > dri-devel mailing list > dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
