Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:26:23 +0200 | From | "Pekka Enberg" <> | Subject | Re: somebody dropped a (warning) bomb |
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On 2/13/07, Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com> wrote: > May I suggest another definition for a warning being entirely sucks? > "The warning is entirely sucks if and only if it never has true > positives." In all other cases it's only more or less sucks, IMHO.
You're totally missing the point. False positives are not a minor annoyance, they're actively harmful as they hide other _useful_ warnings. So, you really want warnings to be about things that can and should be fixed. So you really should aim for _zero false positives_ even if you risk not detecting some real positives. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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