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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 12:21:18 +0000
Subject: Re: KVM: s390: Move two error code assignments in kvm_vm_ioctl_get_dirty_log()
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To: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Christian =?iso-8859-1?Q?Borntr=E4ger?= <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>, Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>, Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Radim =?utf-8?B?S3LEjW3DocWZ?= <rkrcmar@redhat.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org

On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 12:08:12PM +0100, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> > but it certainly carries the risk of breaking something
> 
> This is usual in software development, isn't it?
> 

If you break something but you're trying to fix something then normally
you still end up fixing more than you break.  You haven't yet tried to
fix anything, but you've definitely introduced bugs...

We have had this discussion many times.

regards,
dan carpenter