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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86: !x & y typo in mtrr code
On 2008.04.29 23:04:35 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 09:00:17PM -0700, Harvey Harrison wrote:
> > > As written, this can never be true.
> >
> > ... and introduced through x86.git, of all things... May I suggest
> > that in addition to all-important whitespace hunting something that
> > catches lowly real bugs would also be run over that tree? sparse
> > *does* catch that...
>
> firstly, it _was_ caught via Sparse, ...

But that is exactly Al's point. Had you run sparse over your tree
_before_ it got pulled by Linus, that bug should have never made it into
mainline.

Björn
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