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Subject: Re: Alpha Checkpatch Errors
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On Thu, 2014-07-17 at 23:01 -0400, Nick Krause wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 6:17 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> > On Thu, 17 Jul 2014, Nick Krause wrote:
> >
> >> Hey Richard and other Maintainers,
> >> I am wondering about cleaning up the cleanpatch errors for alpha,  as
> >> I  am hitting a lot of in the arch/alpha directory.
> >> It would be nice if I got a list of files that still need coding style
> >> cleanup as this may be of nice to cleanup :).
> >
> > Nick, can you please stop that nonsense? checkpatch.pl is a tool to
> > check PATCHES and not to apply random nonsense on existing code. See
> > also:
> >
> >   https://lwn.net/Articles/605597/
> >
> > Joe, can you please finally remove the -f option from checkpatch.pl ?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >         tglx
> I understand how about checkpatch. We should remove the -f option as I
> agree it gets used too much.
> Sorry Nick

Nick, are you human?