From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Do not misuse Coverity please (Was: sound/oss/cs46xx.c: fix a check after use)
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 23:45:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050327234557.B17496@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050328003401.7b3cf380.khali@linux-fr.org>; from khali@linux-fr.org on Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 12:34:01AM +0200
On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 12:34:01AM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> I think that you'd be better just telling the
> maintainers about the problem without providing an arbitrary patch, so
> that they will actually look into the problem with their advanced
> knowledge of the driver
FWIW, I agree with Jean.
Applying these patches without adequate review is like applying __iomem
or __user fixes where they've been generated with the aim of shutting up
sparse, rather than considering whether the warning is actually valid.
Once the warning is gone, the real problem is lost and never gets looked
at.
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-27 22:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-27 20:50 [2.6 patch] sound/oss/cs46xx.c: fix a check after use Adrian Bunk
2005-03-27 21:21 ` Do not misuse Coverity please (Was: sound/oss/cs46xx.c: fix a check after use) Jean Delvare
2005-03-27 21:43 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-03-27 22:34 ` Jean Delvare
2005-03-27 22:45 ` Russell King [this message]
2005-03-28 12:54 ` Matthias-Christian Ott
2005-03-28 23:57 ` L. A. Walsh
2005-03-29 6:05 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-03-29 6:23 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-29 10:46 ` Jean Delvare
2005-03-29 14:12 ` Chris Friesen
2005-03-30 1:25 ` Horst von Brand
2005-03-30 7:53 ` Do not misuse Coverity please Jean Delvare
2005-03-30 17:09 ` Horst von Brand
2005-04-11 20:23 ` Pavel Machek
2005-03-30 18:29 ` Shankar Unni
2005-03-30 18:55 ` Olivier Galibert
2005-03-31 2:01 ` Patrick McFarland
2005-03-30 19:14 ` Paulo Marques
2005-03-30 23:11 ` Big GCC bug!!! [Was: Re: Do not misuse Coverity please] Kyle Moffett
2005-03-30 23:38 ` Not a GCC bug (was Re: Big GCC bug!!! [Was: Re: Do not misuse Coverity please]) Jakub Jelinek
2005-03-31 0:58 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-03-31 1:12 ` Nick Piggin
2005-03-31 1:27 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-03-29 14:22 ` Do not misuse Coverity please (Was: sound/oss/cs46xx.c: fix a check after use) Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-03-29 22:37 ` Kyle Moffett
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