From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932626AbcJUJug (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Oct 2016 05:50:36 -0400 Received: from mout.web.de ([217.72.192.78]:62578 "EHLO mout.web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752768AbcJUJuf (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Oct 2016 05:50:35 -0400 Subject: Re: FRV-setup: Clarification for "source code clean-up"? To: Dan Carpenter References: <1405b16a-c470-531d-458d-fb6042b93230@users.sourceforge.net> <81f557b2-40f3-0625-331d-c5b115f1971c@users.sourceforge.net> <20161021075142.GS4469@mwanda> <139f8031-4823-8de4-1a79-0af80f82cd89@users.sourceforge.net> <20161021092730.GJ4418@mwanda> Cc: Jiri Kosina , Geert Uytterhoeven , LKML , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org From: SF Markus Elfring Message-ID: <9944c3e8-f030-a500-682c-7a7c7a1f492b@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 11:50:18 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20161021092730.GJ4418@mwanda> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:npTzJ2Kwj8Q9zW4mcw5YT+eBzP+A2pG/7BB1XWJ0nDuDGWJLB7D rw7yN055lQCTUupozmuKRZACaOlZlmGXi67KovZ6hV7cvwALEWmk78fRv/ICrjV54tRHH/G aVM9ETBfpT1H3F3aSK3uHpbnFVMoqtdIG73vabXBVY/uowNtkzIVHHjcv4gE6ohp7tgthu6 fuxsSiHV8awRrWrOiw8Gw== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:0FBFrm4oHu4=:Dnwe3yayY/L1KYKDQqJ3Ly DNafiSjO4HBwwOEtX0LoYPHAx6yuU2nD9wYmosyTesxx2pQ8fvwIqNuTHLoTf+AG7Imco7tcc MI1aeF5REHqmi3ilhZNtGQCsxZMeg91+DonQ5fH/rg+s4yctDGNeBZ1iASi41dbEXNpOW5O9N ytXS7h1fDZmkMmdJs0cWVSXzg4liforUhIeLN/kmIttVOGR9X/pkr7zjdAJl1DDlEGgP51wKu ylIdNTIUuguWVZEVpOGlswJ5ZpfoJxAz78NxeXcP2hclSJ6oNg0nF05U/HhMjWndPIuHddmnw pStq49EIUOKwpYlErOXh9fJC8Pymgb4iFjq23vrFgSYLup6VgJ37snFkmPTbQHLEk1oyYOAVq Uv4zWS2vtj/A0XDR3K4O15tJHPjZ9agiFZSvZje7VbRq9XMCVMJzs6X56c7IekE9dAQEIYPsx Z+1Fe5m74pwvz0+tacfy3yItqQSCn7KIIokF1YmsEGshPdIwkkONB41Ii2ezlfZs2dgHg49Pk Og9DquKk4YFQsVK2TuPKq5uY9dnLRJ0SpnvCf+nYfWYvgC7RgEVT1d3SxiIEhKJ6zWs2mG/xK wMDuiBievhKLjboShN/ekQngwBJR1JF3/wt26vutmNgBSUYPgryAAZBDtoICsoRAP9Pi6S1mM rG0QDatPVKI6tNYAXMauy/grE36AX+XTxIJygxT0Ti8L2eTALx5gTxQS46T/lcYlqEG5tc7gD sj5Pk6+leMnCa2kF7w4FZicZA+LqR6kHKVdXvn4DhPnce8JWpvdMjR5qbbfdtYv9Pk+TWQIPH XLIuTWF Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > How are you going to fix bugs if you only send clean ups? I would prefer an other wording than "only" in your question. I imagine that probabilities and views will matter more for the handling of a software error spectrum. >> How do you think about to discuss corresponding software development >> statistics in more detail? > > I think normal developers should fix 10 bugs or add a few features for > every regression they introduce. Are you looking for compensation possibilities? > I introduced a regression just last week, so that's a normal part of life, Thanks that you could also admit a programming mistake. > but I was at least *trying* to fix a bug when I did it. I am also trying to improve various software. * We have got just different development opinions about the relevance of some changes. Can such a disagreement be a useful source for interesting ideas? * We are used to inform further contributors about results from static source code analysis. These tools can find a bunch of open issues because of the automatic application of special search patterns. The importance of such findings will vary as usual. Regards, Markus