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Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 15:21:18 +0300
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
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Subject: Re: KVM: s390: Move two error code assignments in
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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