Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:43:15 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: Merging of completely unreviewed drivers |
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On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 01:33:03AM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 01:14:55PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Quite frankly, I've several times been *this* close (holds up fingers so > > you can't even see between them) to just remove checkpatch entirely. > > Agrh! What stopped you?! > > > I'm personally of the opinion that a lot of checkpatch "fixes" are > > anything but. That mainly concerns fixing overlong lines (where the > > "fixed" version is usually worse than the original), but it's been true > > for some other warnings too. > > Speaking of driver, could authors please comment all those barrier() > calls and remove trailing "return;" at the end of void functions.
Why don't you make a patch to checkpatch.pl for those types of things? :)
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