Re: Changelog quality

[Mark Brown]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 01:06:04PM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Mark Brown wrote:

> > This would also mean that other people could run and re-run the scripts
> > during development much more easily which would help improve the
> > coverage of new code.

> On the other hand, one has to take into account the fact that at least in 
> my case, the patches that are submitted are the ones that I have carefully 
> checked for correctness.  Having a make target in the kernel might give 
> some suggestion of quality that is perhaps not appropriate?

This is a general problem with any tool that generates warnings - we
already have to educate people about how to use the GCC and sparse
warnings appropriately, I can't see that these warnings would be any
different.
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