Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756640Ab0AONjh (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:39:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753810Ab0AONjg (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:39:36 -0500 Received: from opensource.wolfsonmicro.com ([80.75.67.52]:33764 "EHLO opensource2.wolfsonmicro.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751069Ab0AONjg (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:39:36 -0500 Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:39:33 +0000 From: Mark Brown To: Julia Lawall Cc: Pekka Enberg , David Miller , stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de, adi@hexapodia.org, nm127@freemail.hu, david.vrabel@csr.com, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cocci@diku.dk, Andrew Morton , Nicolas Palix Subject: Re: Changelog quality Message-ID: <20100115133933.GB21188@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> References: <4B502C6B.7000802@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <20100115.005445.263291449.davem@davemloft.net> <20100115.012233.202457727.davem@davemloft.net> <84144f021001150149u3b784d26g1822be6c5c3ecbf@mail.gmail.com> <20100115110845.GB28625@sirena.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Cookie: Do unto others before they undo you. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 01:06:04PM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote: > On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Mark Brown wrote: > > This would also mean that other people could run and re-run the scripts > > during development much more easily which would help improve the > > coverage of new code. > On the other hand, one has to take into account the fact that at least in > my case, the patches that are submitted are the ones that I have carefully > checked for correctness. Having a make target in the kernel might give > some suggestion of quality that is perhaps not appropriate? This is a general problem with any tool that generates warnings - we already have to educate people about how to use the GCC and sparse warnings appropriately, I can't see that these warnings would be any different. -- 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/