GPU-DRM-QXL: Move three assignments in qxl_device_init()

Sean Paul seanpaul at chromium.org
Fri Sep 23 07:25:35 UTC 2016


On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 1:24 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 03:11:25PM +0200, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
>> > If you restricted yourself to fixing bugs only then you would maybe fix more
>> > bugs than you introduce but as it you are making the kernel worse.
>>
>> Would you like to discuss the statistics for my failure (or success) rate
>> a bit more so that involved issues can be clarified in a constructive way?
>
> It should be that you target 20 bug fixes for each new regression that
> you add.
>
> Since you are just sending clean ups, every bug you introduce sets us
> further and further back.  There is no hope for improving the kernel
> because you are not even trying to fix 20 bugs, only introducing them.
>
> Once you fix 20 bugs, then you will be even and you can start sending
> cleanups again.  This is fair.
>

At the risk of piling on, but hopefully to benefit Markus going forward:

I will refrain from merging any more style/checkpatch/"code cleanup"
patches from Markus until we start getting real, tested, bug fixes.

Sean


> regards,
> dan carpenter
>
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