From: "Pekka Enberg" <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: "Andy Whitcroft" <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Randy Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
"Joel Schopp" <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] update checkpatch.pl to version 0.10
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:37:49 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <84144f020709280637w2290aec5gf3e8f90b08f53cc8@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070928132138.GG18163@shadowen.org>
Hi Andy,
On 9/28/07, Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> wrote:
> That is unfair. Every time we discuss it I state that I disagree that
> hiding mostly useful tests is a good thing. I would love the tests to
> be 100% accurate, but if I removed all the tests that can false positive
> I would literally have none. There is a balance to be struck and we
> have significantly different ideas on where the balance is.
Are you disagreeing with the numbers Ingo posted? 25,000 false
positives for the kernel is beyond silly... Existing conventions
should matter a lot and the default configuration for a static code
checker should really be 100%. So why not hide the potentially useful
warnings under -Wtoo-strict or similar command line option?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-28 13:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-12 15:00 Andy Whitcroft
2007-09-28 8:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-09-28 9:01 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-28 9:22 ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-09-28 9:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-09-28 10:00 ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-09-28 10:46 ` Christian Borntraeger
2007-09-28 11:03 ` WANG Cong
2007-09-28 14:19 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-28 16:57 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-28 10:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-09-28 13:21 ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-09-28 13:37 ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2007-09-28 14:02 ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-09-28 15:50 ` Joel Schopp
2007-09-28 17:26 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-28 17:46 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-29 9:22 ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-10-05 5:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-09-28 16:51 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-28 9:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-09-28 9:52 ` Andy Whitcroft
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