Re: [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Mon Nov 07 2011 - 03:45:39 EST


On 11/07/2011 09:09 AM, Pekka Enberg wrote:
We are obviously also using specifications but as you damn well should
know, specifications don't matter nearly as much as working code.

On Mon, 7 Nov 2011, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
Specifications matter much more than working code. Quirks are a fact of life but should always come second.

To quote Linus:

And I have seen _lots_ of total crap work that was based on specs. It's
_the_ single worst way to write software, because it by definition means
that the software was written to match theory, not reality.

[ http://kerneltrap.org/node/5725 ;]

So no, I don't agree with you at all.

Pekka