Re: [PATCH] return hidden bug

From: Rene Herman
Date: Mon Oct 22 2007 - 18:29:57 EST


On 10/22/2007 08:52 PM, Roel Kluin wrote:

Ray Lee wrote:

Arguing intentions is very dangerous. I've written code like that
where the intention is to make it simple to turn a printk into a full
bug and back and forth during development. At the end of the day, the
fact remains that you're changing behavior.

Let me turn this around. Do you have an alpha and have you tried out
your patch? If not, then I'd suggest turning it into a WARN_ON(1)
instead, as in this specific case you're risking turning what was a
working system into one that doesn't.

No, I haven't and, I will change it, but it's included with my other
changes. see the reply that I'll write shortly for.
[PATCH retry] return hidden bug and unlock bugs.

Hugely trust inspiring isn't it -- the amount of eyes and comments you'll get even on trivial patches like this? This development model is working!

Now if only we'd sometimes get some for non trivial patches as well...

Rene.
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