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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add missing types to checkpatch.pl --list-types
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2017 15:58:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1504393085.31325.3.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170902230315.724835b5@endymion>

On Sat, 2017-09-02 at 23:03 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Oh, btw, is there any purpose in listing a number in front of each
> type?

Not really.  I did that because I wanted a header
and because I had no idea how many of those types
existed and I was too lazy to count.

> It makes it look like one can pass that number instead of the
> type name, however it doesn't work, and I don't think it should as the
> numbering isn't stable and could change with any update of the script.

True.

> Can't we simplify the output and simply print the list of type names?

<shrug>  If you want.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-02 22:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-02 15:51 [PATCH 0/3] Add missing types to checkpatch.pl --list-types Jean Delvare
2017-09-02 15:52 ` [PATCH 1/3] checkpatch: fix typo in comment Jean Delvare
2017-09-02 15:53 ` [PATCH 2/3] checkpatch: rename variables to avoid confusion Jean Delvare
2017-09-02 15:56 ` [PATCH 3/3] checkpatch: add 6 missing types to --list-types Jean Delvare
2017-09-02 16:25 ` [PATCH 0/3] Add missing types to checkpatch.pl --list-types Joe Perches
2017-09-02 19:13   ` Jean Delvare
2017-09-02 21:03     ` Jean Delvare
2017-09-02 22:58       ` Joe Perches [this message]
2017-09-04  8:03         ` Jean Delvare

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