linux-kernel - Re: About the try to remove cross-release feature entirely by Ingo

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Message-ID: <1513178583.3296.2.camel@wdc.com>
Date:   Wed, 13 Dec 2017 15:23:04 +0000
From:   Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@....com>
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Subject: Re: About the try to remove cross-release feature entirely by Ingo

On Wed, 2017-12-13 at 16:13 +0900, Byungchul Park wrote:
> In addition, I want to say that the current level of
> classification is much less than 100% but, since we
> have annotated well to suppress wrong reports by
> rough classifications, finally it does not come into
> view by original lockdep for now.

The Linux kernel is not a vehicle for experiments. The majority of false
positives should have been fixed before the crossrelease patches were sent
to Linus.

Bart.