From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: SF Markus Elfring Subject: Re: platform: x86: Deletion of checks before backlight_device_unregister() Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2015 20:06:57 +0200 Message-ID: <558EE641.7040404@users.sourceforge.net> References: <5307CAA2.8060406@users.sourceforge.net> <5317A59D.4@users.sourceforge.net> <547389A6.9090106@users.sourceforge.net> <3842367.ojrMxTW2rH@path> <5473AD39.9010309@users.sourceforge.net> <20150626230655.GB57818@vmdeb7> <20150627131603.GF28762@mwanda> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.17.11]:62743 "EHLO mout.web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753018AbbF0SHN (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Jun 2015 14:07:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20150627131603.GF28762@mwanda> Sender: platform-driver-x86-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Dan Carpenter Cc: Darren Hart , Julia Lawall , Anisse Astier , Corentin Chary , Ike Panhc , Jonathan Woithe , Mattia Dongili , platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, acpi4asus-user@lists.sourceforge.net, LKML , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org > There is no way for a human being to remember the complete list of > functions with sanity checks and which don't have sanity checks. I understand also this software development challenge. > Markus has introduced quite a few bugs as well I have only found other opinions about specific update suggestions. Which of such "bugs" are real mistakes? Are you looking for a better consensus? > (people have so far managed to catch his bugs before they were committed). Would you like to refer to any concrete software developers? > He so far has resisted any suggestion that he should manually review > his patches before sending them. I am performing source code review to some degree. My approach does partly not fit to your expectations. Regards, Markus