We have a lot of duplicated code in the kernel

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20050129161022.0de822fe at Magellan.Leidinger.net>, Alexander Leidinger writes:
>Hi,
>
>http://www.leidinger.net/FreeBSD/simian-20-sys-20050129.log (253k)
>contains a log of duplicated code in /sys (-current as of today). The
>file starts with files with 20 consecutive lines of duplicated code and
>ends with two files which share 1108 lines of code.
>
>If I let the program detect 6 consecutive lines of duplicated code, it
>is also able to detect possible code reuse in the same file, but it also
>prints a lot of "noise" then.
>
>I've filtered the list for some false positives (twa_fwimg, trlld?m,
>if_patm_rtables), if someone else notices some more files please tell me
>about them and I add them to the filter.

And we'll soon see the tool which generates this in src/tools/tools
somewhere I hope ? :-)

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