From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932411AbcJUJMN (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Oct 2016 05:12:13 -0400 Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.17.12]:49296 "EHLO mout.web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932193AbcJUJMM (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Oct 2016 05:12:12 -0400 Subject: Re: FRV-setup: Clarification for "source code clean-up"? To: Dan Carpenter References: <1405b16a-c470-531d-458d-fb6042b93230@users.sourceforge.net> <81f557b2-40f3-0625-331d-c5b115f1971c@users.sourceforge.net> <20161021075142.GS4469@mwanda> Cc: Jiri Kosina , Geert Uytterhoeven , LKML , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org From: SF Markus Elfring Message-ID: <139f8031-4823-8de4-1a79-0af80f82cd89@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 11:11:54 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20161021075142.GS4469@mwanda> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:yNEhsyENSYbDCIn2ME5Z0u5U8QDMqLV8cnoZ2i+bmFdAAnc3PEg G7yJr91qxEIlMdr5byZ8o2RoYeaf6A6xvOTqPbqe9JuY5CJIz+PKqIITV3B00Jzy4yl3L3/ L+0rEmdCvkBTeNlMdLTEeCFgeUZfQFm2a38NnkGTPlIJL2jGERhOs3/z1ciYXkYjkzlLGWK +NY6ODy7GjPeGJLMTRTug== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:vvibIOPW+PU=:p6OB4hHX2w0UChcD0paBDG W1DrQ4x0yaB5p2LJiUeL61D+zmkTHaYdagLlVa1gE0vOQsoZdQu17ObH/52NHRwEWpfU5bQKX 6ATobcHBzTOtGGb6mTbNyQr6aYLuFBFKm3Y/h1ldRM8y6ISseUaQcbU/ghAw9tmaF0k93Wph1 7uhM6/kUqMi4J2hFeF42H2tF/VvJTa/LV9gBMIccj2LhhsncMzM1xu9OlsABnwY4Wnqnj7gqy ddARuByo28QHZPnRPDrRpAjkG/qf+hSjLdDptFfbkOaVpAX/Ambkh1bV7FYy+WfgQJJJEK05A gwL7PlAIiSStxh9VwvOmeTyXrZGOp78trRrEWzzDYSgRuRUwt1dreaLxkd0ZV7OcUnMTsiwvL pD/2keeMRu8G6+NLKoSUwvyqRqQTOAzeVLBMvHru1Kqr33kWRCrgkDTjn9c59O+vj/iwdQDiz eNLeouFyBBpO4rotvK0IAgKzwokuDUyRKU4WeCtF691OCiwyXb03ZXfkLV8nbymWKab3oCXx9 7gfyEXBhpTmLBlcfqnAg7qbMoQvSzx/AUbq3L/6reGwbSu8dYQPK7jHgz423QHP8t6tl6+Q/H 21gLg//3QmhC5MEsEa8Rzo7C5U2BTP9VjclI0IuQiln7cSUE49TWRXHQGSHCvIzpcV2eN5jLL jScdUvdUHta7OgrWWbtSPPKpdRlQ0sw6t1wt5zHkA2FKRJuBc5ura48HmSOftjPH4H96bNMqb CMA49wSmwn4kbU/+WsOao2YWwbW1Aen90wA2xVYy3RBDcGzHwGzv29VU1om5IbSklKXBiaJg7 bkO7O/6 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > It's all about ratios... Each clean up patch has chance of introducing > a bug. Each update suggestion contains a possibility for mistakes. > If you only send clean up patches then you only introduce bugs. I find such a conclusion questionable with the wording "only". > We really don't want people sending patches if they introduce more bugs > than they fix. How do you think about to discuss corresponding software development statistics in more detail? Regards, Markus From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: SF Markus Elfring Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 09:11:54 +0000 Subject: Re: FRV-setup: Clarification for "source code clean-up"? Message-Id: <139f8031-4823-8de4-1a79-0af80f82cd89@users.sourceforge.net> List-Id: References: <1405b16a-c470-531d-458d-fb6042b93230@users.sourceforge.net> <81f557b2-40f3-0625-331d-c5b115f1971c@users.sourceforge.net> <20161021075142.GS4469@mwanda> In-Reply-To: <20161021075142.GS4469@mwanda> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Dan Carpenter Cc: Jiri Kosina , Geert Uytterhoeven , LKML , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org > It's all about ratios... Each clean up patch has chance of introducing > a bug. Each update suggestion contains a possibility for mistakes. > If you only send clean up patches then you only introduce bugs. I find such a conclusion questionable with the wording "only". > We really don't want people sending patches if they introduce more bugs > than they fix. How do you think about to discuss corresponding software development statistics in more detail? Regards, Markus