Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751483AbXBMS0f (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:26:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751486AbXBMS0f (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:26:35 -0500 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.171]:40781 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751483AbXBMS0e (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:26:34 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received: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=Iw2d17fiqWysQJDCTpI82usm+7UCZRqiMLVpRm9EKkkPNcF4mfznUW8SZxiGiVmug2MIEipipjECyoid8+2duiZCVQnz0ET8xs6QdTGnoHLwZ3+df2BSMhpcwNbAj7/Lzcs02Rr4ZVpvjbp8RROPsxDwL8g/fnBpr7B3ifehgrY= Message-ID: <84144f020702131026q2af1afd6vbcd2708d7b7b9907@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:26:23 +0200 From: "Pekka Enberg" To: "Sergei Organov" Subject: Re: somebody dropped a (warning) bomb Cc: "Linus Torvalds" , "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?J.A._Magall=C3=C3=C2=B3n?=" , "Jan Engelhardt" , "Jeff Garzik" , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" , "Andrew Morton" In-Reply-To: <87ps8end9b.fsf@javad.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <45CB3B28.60102@garzik.org> <20070208221317.5beedaeb@werewolf-wl> <87abznsdyo.fsf@javad.com> <874pprr5nn.fsf@javad.com> <87ps8end9b.fsf@javad.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 690c86eb4c93ce23 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 823 Lines: 15 On 2/13/07, Sergei Organov wrote: > May I suggest another definition for a warning being entirely sucks? > "The warning is entirely sucks if and only if it never has true > positives." In all other cases it's only more or less sucks, IMHO. You're totally missing the point. False positives are not a minor annoyance, they're actively harmful as they hide other _useful_ warnings. So, you really want warnings to be about things that can and should be fixed. So you really should aim for _zero false positives_ even if you risk not detecting some real positives. - 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/