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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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  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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