Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759997AbYBAVrh (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Feb 2008 16:47:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755665AbYBAVr2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Feb 2008 16:47:28 -0500 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:51952 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755452AbYBAVr1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Feb 2008 16:47:27 -0500 Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 22:47:25 +0100 (CET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Harvey Harrison cc: Andrew Morton , Sam Ravnborg , LKML , linux arch , James Bottomley Subject: Re: Are Section mismatches out of control? In-Reply-To: <1201864894.23523.117.camel@brick> Message-ID: References: <20080201104718.GA11717@uranus.ravnborg.org> <20080201030329.9b760777.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1201864894.23523.117.camel@brick> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 889 Lines: 23 On Feb 1 2008 03:21, Harvey Harrison wrote: >> >> Question is: why do people keep adding new ones when they are so easy to >> detect and fix? >> >> Asnwer: because neither they nor their patch integrators are doing adequate >> compilation testing. > >[...] >Unless they break the build, or if there currently are 0 and they make >it non-zero, people seem not to care....sad. Probably the same for >sparse/checkpatch, "there's plenty already, I can't be bothered to look" checkpatch does not parse C, it uses heuristical regexes. That makes it very different from sparse or the section mismatch finder which do not output false 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/