linux-kernel - Re: somebody dropped a (warning) bomb

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Message-ID: <84144f020702131026q2af1afd6vbcd2708d7b7b9907@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:26:23 +0200
From:	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	"Sergei Organov" <osv@...ad.com>
Cc:	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"J.A. MagallÃÃÂ³n" <jamagallon@....com>,
	"Jan Engelhardt" <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>,
	"Jeff Garzik" <jeff@...zik.org>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: somebody dropped a (warning) bomb

On 2/13/07, Sergei Organov <osv@...ad.com> wrote:
> May I suggest another definition for a warning being entirely sucks?
> "The warning is entirely sucks if and only if it never has true
> positives." In all other cases it's only more or less sucks, IMHO.

You're totally missing the point. False positives are not a minor
annoyance, they're actively harmful as they hide other _useful_
warnings. So, you really want warnings to be about things that can and
should be fixed. So you really should aim for _zero false positives_
even if you risk not detecting some real positives.
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