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Message-ID: <20120615071222.GZ13539@mwanda> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 10:12:22 +0300 From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com> To: Fengguang Wu <wfg@...ux.intel.com> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: automated warning notifications On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 09:48:35AM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: > The lots of false warnings are a big problem. It makes the automated > notification more noises than signals to people. So I end up disabling > the sparse check totally.. > I do a basic sanity check of my emails before I send them. Sometimes I do send false positives. If the warning is introduced by a very new code then probably the patch author can answer my question off the top of her head. Also I send some false positives just to try learn what the rules are. > In an average working day, 1-2 build errors will be caught and email > notified. I guess there will be more sparse warnings if it's turned > on. > > Perhaps the sparse warnings can be enabled, but only sent to the patch > author. If you and anyone else are interested, they could be sent to > some mailing list, too. One thing I'm sure is, we probably never want > to disturb the busy maintainers with these warnings. Eventually I think we will want to set up a mailing list for this or we will start sending duplicate messages. regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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