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

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Message-ID: <877iuknbp9.fsf@javad.com>
Date:	Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:52:18 +0300
From:	Sergei Organov <osv@...ad.com>
To:	Olivier Galibert <galibert@...ox.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

Olivier Galibert <galibert@...ox.com> writes:
> On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 09:06:24PM +0300, Sergei Organov 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.
>
> That means a warning that triggers on every line saying "there may be
> a bug there" does not entirely suck?

You got me. This warning is indeed entirely sucks. My definition is
poor.

-- Sergei.
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