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SubjectRe: [patch] checkpatch.pl: revert wrong --file message
Hi,

On Feb 16, 2008 12:18 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> People, who do cleanups - I'm not talking about running lindent here -
> read through the code while they fix it up.
>
> Actually they find bugs that way or at least come up with useful
> questions about code which is not obvious in the first place.
>
> Discouraging such cleanups with a pretty offensive warning is
> counterproductive.

Well, it's not just about cleanup patches submitted by "newbies". I
use checkpatch for development too and the warning is real PITA for
that.


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