Re: Merging of completely unreviewed drivers

From: Krzysztof Halasa
Date: Sun Feb 24 2008 - 09:47:31 EST


Jörn Engel <joern@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I strongly disagree. Machine-generated warnings are a great way of
> quickly locating a large amount of questionable code in an otherwise
> overwhelming haystack. It doesn't even matter much, which warnings you
> look for. Almost all code checkers find the same hotspots.

I think you misunderstood. Of course I'm not against warnings in
general. I'm rather talking about _authority_ of human vs machine,
in this specific ("measuring" code complexity) case.
--
Krzysztof Halasa
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