Re: Are Section mismatches out of control?

James Bottomley
2008-02-01T22:10:27Z

On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 22:47 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Feb 1 2008 03:21, Harvey Harrison wrote:
> >>
> >> Question is: why do people keep adding new ones when they are so easy to
> >> detect and fix?
> >>
> >> Asnwer: because neither they nor their patch integrators are doing adequate
> >> compilation testing.
> >
> >[...]
> >Unless they break the build, or if there currently are 0 and they make
> >it non-zero, people seem not to care....sad. Probably the same for
> >sparse/checkpatch, "there's plenty already, I can't be bothered to look"
>
> checkpatch does not parse C, it uses heuristical regexes.
>
> That makes it very different from sparse or the section mismatch
> finder which do not output false positives.

Even by the exalted standards of LKML which sometimes seems to make a
virtue of misinformation, four wrong statements in twenty seven words is
pretty impressive ... I salute you!

James