Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755268AbbF0SHT (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Jun 2015 14:07:19 -0400 Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.17.11]:62743 "EHLO mout.web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753018AbbF0SHN (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Jun 2015 14:07:13 -0400 Message-ID: <558EE641.7040404@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2015 20:06:57 +0200 From: SF Markus Elfring User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Carpenter CC: Darren Hart , Julia Lawall , Anisse Astier , Corentin Chary , Ike Panhc , Jonathan Woithe , Mattia Dongili , platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, acpi4asus-user@lists.sourceforge.net, LKML , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: platform: x86: Deletion of checks before backlight_device_unregister() References: <5307CAA2.8060406@users.sourceforge.net> <5317A59D.4@users.sourceforge.net> <547389A6.9090106@users.sourceforge.net> <3842367.ojrMxTW2rH@path> <5473AD39.9010309@users.sourceforge.net> <20150626230655.GB57818@vmdeb7> <20150627131603.GF28762@mwanda> In-Reply-To: <20150627131603.GF28762@mwanda> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:9zcVeeeXUiAJnez+EzcziHgMUIjYSE9PTx3vzZTwsmLBawh3YX8 bCOHSDOGq57LTTijsip95Vm1pExAZIQbDt/96Q89sRPveR2ikfuFD9doJwiLbSYz531tBmy lH3qHhUU3eLbgCp1VVwvFikw3c07b2rphN27amS4ncpLMd3Ll/3N9Stqnv/CT+VaWObyLrV pi6joihqBCEfFG+tSeyiw== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:/p7I62N1Nzk=:PC0gagKAwmWuPMLvsJ0J62 4EgF5A3gikIJ3H8Pzki1hmi9sMemGRnxmQPzdaPun0yaNzapaXZdn/VmzJTcyhVvGQEoDShR7 yqSH/vsMFzSrS5a5GigOWJOgFps7wVLHNxEQw1nJvIHIW4ah1KB1vtcAFiA/gGGia1tDiT0vw /FxD3kN4oWTDmQ4zq1QdcUUlheETDmlWSU+TmvC4TesVntuhQtCswXGBVBAOuZ6mh8r3muKZ4 VM8HvnS8wtNAdnXvx5fI+Jmn7bSWLkz6DIa1bUigg21oA3Qcpld5xUDoEEUxKlba8wD1KgCyo Q2pBOgJm81KmxF+rka6w5a3/cKq2XZf1O4iVLnQYZClpw1xf39SUpZL85glC9x+TKuvuEHJhB Wgmnqc41aJ3N1D02Sw0qchN7RDTOFvFf9DTwGPPfacU8SWckwggV0EOBD811O2O1yWfXy0yX+ YNGLwEHGJ5m5H1ckKq+D/3LRco4twcgyesRZKLXld3mVOYjE+zITv56PjtX41sawy1MFIhuA8 zExsCI4KYX2TKCFANS+4fhsEZLUQ5Xn6lqiZ6bbcsXbwzkatSEOLC01wPmMkBrEk2ZGVgGkDV K8soxtGgh8AbQS4bWCi51iFisAucJnOX5lZ05TtD7Q7bseviM6lw/JtsxqaMzBCf6SIN1wrv7 4NTsKFLqxWAaGcu8wI/OjkKcXo8SWCdJsXcR9xiUMYrlkkY/Izk2ZQAUsVbMHwUr5LSY= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1009 Lines: 31 > There is no way for a human being to remember the complete list of > functions with sanity checks and which don't have sanity checks. I understand also this software development challenge. > Markus has introduced quite a few bugs as well I have only found other opinions about specific update suggestions. Which of such "bugs" are real mistakes? Are you looking for a better consensus? > (people have so far managed to catch his bugs before they were committed). Would you like to refer to any concrete software developers? > He so far has resisted any suggestion that he should manually review > his patches before sending them. I am performing source code review to some degree. My approach does partly not fit to your expectations. Regards, Markus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/