From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, adaplas@gmail.com,
benh@kernel.crashing.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
ak@suse.de, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [git patches] two warning fixes
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:32:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <469ECD29.2010909@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707181834070.27353@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So let's make a new rule:
>
> We absolutely NEVER add things like "must_check" unless not checking
> causes a real and obvious SECURITY ISSUE.
>
> And we absolutely *never* add crap like "deprecated", where the only
> point of the warning is to effectively hide *real* problems.
>
> So realistically, the only thing that needs must_check is pretty much
> things like "get_user()" and quite frankly, I'm not sure even about that
> one.
>
> Ok?
Sounds great to me... My overall goal is killing useless warnings that
continually obscure real ones.
Jeff
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-19 2:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-18 23:55 [git patches] two warning fixes Jeff Garzik
2007-07-18 23:59 ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-19 0:05 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-07-19 1:19 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-07-19 1:41 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-19 1:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-19 2:05 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-07-19 2:36 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-19 1:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-19 2:32 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-07-19 13:40 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-07-19 18:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-19 18:20 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-07-20 18:34 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-07-21 0:32 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-07-22 4:03 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-07-22 21:29 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-07-23 3:26 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-07-19 13:38 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-07-19 18:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-20 12:54 ` Tim Tassonis
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