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SubjectRe: [PATCH] scsi: megaraid: cleanup formatting of megaraid
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On Thu, 2022-01-27 at 16:32 -0800, Tom Rix wrote:
> On 1/27/22 2:47 PM, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > + Miguel (the clang-format maintainer), Joe (checkpatch maintainer)
> > These criticisms are worth reviewing.
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 2:38 PM Finn Thain <fthain@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, 27 Jan 2022, trix@redhat.com wrote:
> > >
> > > > From: Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>
> > > >
> > > > checkpatch reports several hundred formatting errors. Run these files
> > > > through clang-format and knock off some of them.
> > > >
> > > That method seems like a good recipe for endless churn unless checkpatch
> > > and clang-format really agree about these style rules.
> > >
> > > Why use checkpatch to assess code style, if we could simply diff the
> > > existing source with the output from clang-format... but it seems that
> > > clang-format harms readability, makes indentation errors and uses
> > > inconsistent style rules. Some examples:
>
> Problems with clang-format should be fixed, I'll take a look.
>
> I was reviewing this file for another issue and could not get past how
> horredously bad it was and really did not want to manually fix the 400+
> formatting errors.  I will drop this patch and use the use these files
> to verify the .clang-format .

I think this is more an issue with clang-format than with checkpatch.

If you have specific issues with what checkpatch reports for this
file (or any other file), let me know.

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