From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>,
Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>,
"Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@ldl.fc.hp.com>,
james rich <james.rich@m.cc.utah.edu>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
parisc-linux@parisc-linux.org
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Re: OK, let's try cleaning up another nit. Is anyone paying attention?
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 20:37:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010420203700.E21392@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E14qjmd-0002QD-00@the-village.bc.nu>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 11:53:44PM +0100
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>:
> > Even supposing that's so, a 36% rate of broken symbols is way too high.
> > It argues that we need to do a thorough housecleaning at least once in
> > order to get back to an acceptably low stable rate.
>
> Many of your 'broken' symbols arent. We have no idea what the real amount is
If it can't be mechanically verified that the symbol has a correct reference
pattern within the tree, then it's broken. That's a definition.
The fact that it might become un-broken someday, by somebody's
intention to merge in future code, is interesting but irrelevant to
the fact that symbols broken in present time *mask bugs* in present time.
I'm not being a compulsive neatnik -- that wouldn't be worth my time. What I'm
trying to do is reduce the number of crevices in which bugs can hide.
--
<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were
no religion in it.
-- John Adams, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-21 0:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 81+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-20 2:36 [parisc-linux] Re: OK, let's try cleaning up another nit. Is anyone paying attention? Matthew Wilcox
2001-04-20 2:36 ` Matthew Wilcox
2001-04-20 3:00 ` [parisc-linux] " Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-20 3:00 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-20 3:17 ` [parisc-linux] " Matthew Wilcox
2001-04-20 3:17 ` Matthew Wilcox
2001-04-20 4:07 ` [parisc-linux] " james rich
2001-04-20 4:07 ` james rich
2001-04-20 4:19 ` [parisc-linux] " Matthew Wilcox
2001-04-20 4:19 ` Matthew Wilcox
2001-04-20 4:52 ` [parisc-linux] " Albert D. Cahalan
2001-04-20 4:52 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-04-20 5:17 ` [parisc-linux] " Rik van Riel
2001-04-20 5:17 ` Rik van Riel
2001-04-20 13:13 ` [parisc-linux] " Alan Cox
2001-04-20 13:35 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-20 13:43 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-20 13:53 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-20 14:03 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-20 14:19 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-20 14:44 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-20 14:59 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-20 15:51 ` Tom Rini
2001-04-20 16:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-04-20 16:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-04-20 16:15 ` Bob McElrath
2001-04-20 16:21 ` Matthew Wilcox
2001-04-20 19:00 ` Jeff Dike
2001-04-20 19:00 ` Jeff Dike
2001-04-20 18:47 ` Matthew Wilcox
2001-04-20 21:55 ` Jeff Dike
2001-04-20 21:55 ` Jeff Dike
2001-04-20 18:53 ` Jes Sorensen
2001-04-20 16:26 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-04-20 16:26 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-04-20 16:35 ` Nicolas Pitre
2001-04-20 16:35 ` Nicolas Pitre
2001-04-20 16:50 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-20 19:08 ` Russell King
2001-04-21 3:08 ` Tom Leete
2001-04-21 3:08 ` Tom Leete
2001-04-21 8:53 ` [parisc-linux] Re: OK, let's try cleaning up another nit. Is anyone rmk
2001-04-20 18:20 ` [parisc-linux] Re: OK, let's try cleaning up another nit. Is anyone paying attention? Tom Rini
2001-04-20 18:48 ` Nicolas Pitre
2001-04-20 18:48 ` Nicolas Pitre
2001-04-20 18:55 ` Tom Rini
2001-04-20 21:19 ` David Woodhouse
2001-04-20 21:19 ` David Woodhouse
2001-04-20 21:24 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-20 21:29 ` David Woodhouse
2001-04-20 21:29 ` David Woodhouse
2001-04-20 21:35 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-20 21:39 ` David Woodhouse
2001-04-20 21:39 ` David Woodhouse
2001-04-21 0:24 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-20 22:53 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-21 0:37 ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2001-04-21 12:32 ` David Woodhouse
2001-04-21 12:32 ` David Woodhouse
2001-04-23 21:12 ` [patch] fix broken symbols (was Re: OK, let's try ...) Arjan van de Ven
2001-04-21 23:39 ` [parisc-linux] Re: OK, let's try cleaning up another nit. Is anyone paying attention? Jes Sorensen
2001-04-20 18:50 ` Russell King
2001-04-20 18:50 ` Russell King
2001-04-20 21:23 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-04-21 0:52 ` [parisc-linux] Proposal for better attribution structure Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-21 0:52 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-20 8:19 ` [parisc-linux] Re: OK, let's try cleaning up another nit. Is anyone paying attention? David Woodhouse
2001-04-20 8:19 ` David Woodhouse
2001-04-20 19:47 ` [parisc-linux] " Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-20 19:47 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-20 20:00 ` [parisc-linux] " Matthew Wilcox
2001-04-20 20:00 ` Matthew Wilcox
2001-04-20 20:13 ` [parisc-linux] " Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-20 20:13 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-20 20:55 ` [parisc-linux] " Alan Cox
2001-04-20 20:55 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-21 6:48 ` [parisc-linux] " Grant Grundler
2001-04-21 14:52 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-20 13:08 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-20 13:18 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-07-29 10:47 ` Riley Williams
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