linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1111071038250.6486@tux.localdomain>
Date:	Mon, 7 Nov 2011 10:45:22 +0200 (EET)
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>, Alexander Graf <agraf@...e.de>,
	"kvm@...r.kernel.org list" <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
	qemu-devel Developers <qemu-devel@...gnu.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@...il.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
	Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels

On 11/07/2011 09:09 AM, Pekka Enberg wrote:
>> We are obviously also using specifications but as you damn well should
>> know, specifications don't matter nearly as much as working code.

On Mon, 7 Nov 2011, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Specifications matter much more than working code.  Quirks are a fact of life 
> but should always come second.

To quote Linus:

   And I have seen _lots_ of total crap work that was based on specs. It's
   _the_ single worst way to write software, because it by definition means
   that the software was written to match theory, not reality.

[ http://kerneltrap.org/node/5725 ]

So no, I don't agree with you at all.

 			Pekka