From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751783AbYJRJyt (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Oct 2008 05:54:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751039AbYJRJyl (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Oct 2008 05:54:41 -0400 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.177]:39091 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750964AbYJRJyk (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Oct 2008 05:54:40 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references:x-google-sender-auth; b=Hpu4HWKzIP6JCmozFdUxYRoOst0LD48WrDogcXSOFqU7E+8mPrRRZ6zg+imfb3a0FI BNkV4KAAKRS6GXE8grrUGkxFA/E81xECKgvKZ10rdIJTA4EFIHXGmhdrxrsnkaqIgyax Hs8LdR/38XuHcvT6AKEg32SHIAqDHcyCb5+C0= Message-ID: <84144f020810180254u6fa1c3b9t987f06ccd204a81a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 12:54:39 +0300 From: "Pekka Enberg" To: "Fred ." Subject: Re: Stop accept/merge code that does not compile without warnings Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: X-Google-Sender-Auth: 2a4509388ba986c5 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Fred, On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 4:15 AM, Fred . wrote: > Kernel development is supposed to be done by professionals. > Please stop merge code that does not compile without warnings. > If when you compile it, if it does spit out warnings, then reject it! > > We need professional quality, we cant merge any crap, else we get > unstable kernel with lots of bugs. > Kernel developers are supposed to be expert programmers, they > shouldn't have code that spits out warnings. Thanks for the excellent advice! I'm sure we'll all be more careful in the future knowing you're looking after us. Keep up the good work. Pekka