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Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Minimize checkpatch induced patches...

From Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Minimize checkpatch induced patches...
Date 2016-09-14 21:20 +0200
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On Wed, 2016-09-14 at 20:54 +0200, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> On 09/14/2016 08:33 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> > That's not true, I _WANT_ checkpatch cleanups for the portion of the
> > kernel I maintain.  It keeps the code correct, up to date, easier to
> > maintain, and in doing so, we have found real bugs over time.
> Assuming that there are others with the same opinions that means that 
> Joes patch is not the right solution?

The patch doesn't forbid that.

It just means any checkpatch induced change outside of
drivers/staging would generally be intentional and would not
commonly be submitted by inexperienced developers.

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Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Minimize checkpatch induced patches... Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> - 2016-09-14 20:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Minimize checkpatch induced patches... Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-09-14 20:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Minimize checkpatch induced patches... Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> - 2016-09-14 20:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Minimize checkpatch induced patches... Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> - 2016-09-14 20:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Minimize checkpatch induced patches... Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-09-14 20:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Minimize checkpatch induced patches... Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> - 2016-09-14 20:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Minimize checkpatch induced patches... Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> - 2016-09-14 21:00 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Minimize checkpatch induced patches... Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-09-14 21:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Minimize checkpatch induced patches... Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> - 2016-09-18 21:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Minimize checkpatch induced patches... Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> - 2016-09-15 02:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Minimize checkpatch induced patches... Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> - 2016-09-15 02:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Minimize checkpatch induced patches... Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-09-15 02:10 +0200

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