From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754890AbcH0Uk5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Aug 2016 16:40:57 -0400 Received: from smtprelay0011.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.11]:34214 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752002AbcH0Uk4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Aug 2016 16:40:56 -0400 X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Spam-Summary: 2,0,0,,d41d8cd98f00b204,joe@perches.com,:::::::::,RULES_HIT:41:355:379:541:973:988:989:1260:1277:1311:1313:1314:1345:1373:1437:1515:1516:1518:1534:1539:1593:1594:1711:1714:1730:1747:1777:1792:1963:2393:2553:2559:2562:2828:3138:3139:3140:3141:3142:3351:3622:3865:3866:3868:3870:3873:4250:5007:7875:7903:10004:10400:10848:11232:11658:11783:11914:12740:13069:13311:13357:13439:13894:14659:21080:21433:30054:30062:30064:30070:30090:30091,0,RBL:none,CacheIP:none,Bayesian:0.5,0.5,0.5,Netcheck:none,DomainCache:0,MSF:not bulk,SPF:fn,MSBL:0,DNSBL:none,Custom_rules:0:0:0,LFtime:1,LUA_SUMMARY:none X-HE-Tag: kitty68_4212de7873801 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 1295 Message-ID: <1472330452.26978.23.camel@perches.com> Subject: checkkpatch (in)sanity ? From: Joe Perches To: Sasha Levin , alexander.levin@verizon.com, Greg KH Cc: LKML , ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2016 13:40:52 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.18.5.2-0ubuntu3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 01:26:35PM +0200, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 12:46:51AM -0400, Levin, Alexander wrote: >>    - Making checkpatch check for (some) of the stable kernel rules >>    (and possibly recommend adding the stable@ tag in certain cases?). >>      - Depends on: making checkpatch sane again.>This sounds interesting.  What do you mean by "sane"? Sasha, can you expand your thoughts here please? Most all of the trivial spacing stuff can easily be ignored either by a human determining what's important or by using command line options like --ignore=spacing