Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:21:57 -0600 | From | yodaiken@fsmlabs ... | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Re: Move of input drivers, some word needed from you |
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On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 09:30:22AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > > > You've ignored what I see as Rogier's main point. It's not "shared > > code means less bugs" per se, it's "shared code means better test > > coverage". > > Testing only gets you so far. > > And having a driver that handles everything under the sun can easily get > too complex - to the point where testing only shows that something is > wrong, and actually _fixing_ the bugs is getting to be the problem. > > See Windows.
See IBM MVS. Note documents where there are hundreds of pages of information on different parameters: if you are calling Z to move data ..., if you are calling Z to encrypt commands to a 10234-T tape robot ... ... and so on.
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