Re: checkpatch.pl false positive: FSF mailing address

From	Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: checkpatch.pl false positive: FSF mailing address
Date	2016-03-10 20:30 +0100
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On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 11:25:55AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-03-10 at 11:15 -0800, Brian Norris wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> 
> Hey again Brian.
> 
> > > Yeah, it's amusing.  It's also likely not something worth
> > > bothering with though as the likelihood of fixing it is low
> > > and eventually the FSF warning will be minimized or removed
> > > as no longer necessary.
> > An easy improvement: don't use "ignore case" for the regex.
> 
> Maybe, but:
> 
> drivers/pcmcia/bfin_cf_pcmcia.c: * if not, write to the free software foundation,
> 
> Of course there's only one of those too.
> 
> Mostly, it's a "I just don't care very much" warning.
> 
> If you care enough to submit a patch removing the "/i"
> from the regex, please do and cc Andrew Morton too.

Maybe I will.

> > > checkpatch is stupid, false positives will always exist.
> 
> I'd almost rather have people understand this.

Then perhaps I'll also patch this note out:

NOTE: If any of the errors are false positives, please report
      them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.

Regards,
Brian

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checkpatch.pl false positive: FSF mailing address Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com> - 2016-03-10 20:10 +0100
  Re: checkpatch.pl false positive: FSF mailing address Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-03-10 20:10 +0100
    Re: checkpatch.pl false positive: FSF mailing address Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com> - 2016-03-10 20:20 +0100
      Re: checkpatch.pl false positive: FSF mailing address Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-03-10 20:30 +0100
        Re: checkpatch.pl false positive: FSF mailing address Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com> - 2016-03-10 20:30 +0100
          Re: checkpatch.pl false positive: FSF mailing address Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-03-10 20:40 +0100

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