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From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patchset] rewrite of initializer handling
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:30:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070618193026.GH21478@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4676C8CF.6020201@freedesktop.org>

On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 11:02:55AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
 
> Yeah, I've observed the same thing from activity in both the kernel community
> and the Sparse community.  I still look at the patches, but primarily so I
> can understand them and learn something from them, not because I expect to
> find anything wrong. :)

That's never a good idea, no matter where the patches are coming from.
Odds are that you have a different set of blind spots, so having "why
isn't that broken here?" as background attitude while reading any code
tends to find exactly the crap that happens to be hard to find for author
of the code in question...

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-18 19:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-18 10:19 [patchset] rewrite of initializer handling Al Viro
2007-06-18 10:26 ` Al Viro
2007-06-18 17:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-18 18:02   ` Josh Triplett
2007-06-18 19:30     ` Al Viro [this message]
2007-06-18 18:19 ` Josh Triplett
2007-06-18 19:16   ` Al Viro
2007-06-18 19:27     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-18 21:46     ` Michael Stefaniuc
2007-06-18 22:43       ` Al Viro
2007-06-19  9:47         ` Michael Stefaniuc
2007-06-19 20:15     ` Michael Stefaniuc
2007-06-19 22:41       ` Al Viro
2007-06-20  8:54         ` Michael Stefaniuc
2007-06-20 21:29           ` Michael Stefaniuc
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-06-19 17:12 Alexey Dobriyan
2007-06-19 17:21 ` Al Viro
2007-06-19 22:33   ` Al Viro

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