From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org,
kernel-janitors <kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] reformat_with_checkpatch: Add automation to checkpatch
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 12:28:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140712192846.GB25649@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1405189777.9132.27.camel@joe-AO725>
On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 11:29:37AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-07-12 at 10:55 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > Yes, the warnings are all due to line-length, but Joe, you shouldn't add
> > a patch that causes more checkpatch warnings than before :)
>
> Yeah, that was intentional though.
>
> This script does a series of relatively discrete changes.
>
> Lindent would more or less work, but it's _horrible_ at
> wrapping overlong lines and merges all types of changes
> together.
Oh I agree, I don't want to see Lindent, but maybe, if the patch adds
checkpatch warnings, it should be at least "flagged" as maybe a problem?
> > While I always want to see more developers get involved with kernel
> > development, there should be a minimum barrier to entry. And that
> > barrier is the knowledge of the C language, and knowledge of how to edit
> > a text file, and use git. This script takes that barrier away, for
> > whitespace cleanups, with not much real use overall.
> >
> > So, I'll keep my local copy of this script now, just to have fun with at
> > times when I'm bored. But I don't think it should be merged, as-is.
>
> Dunno, I still think it's useful.
For you, and me, but the world?
Would you want to be on the receiving end of this patch script? I
don't, and I'm willing to take almost any patch cleanup for staging
code. I think that says something :)
> Maybe when you get new code, you might run it through a
> script like this before committing it.
I will keep it for me, like I said.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-12 19:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-12 1:21 [PATCH] reformat_with_checkpatch: Add automation to checkpatch Joe Perches
2014-07-12 1:34 ` Greg KH
2014-07-12 1:40 ` Joe Perches
2014-07-12 2:34 ` Greg KH
2014-07-12 9:30 ` Dan Carpenter
2014-07-12 17:55 ` Greg KH
2014-07-12 18:29 ` Joe Perches
2014-07-12 19:28 ` Greg KH [this message]
2014-07-13 3:06 ` Joe Perches
2014-07-12 1:39 ` Greg KH
2014-07-12 1:46 ` Joe Perches
2014-07-12 2:01 ` Greg KH
2014-07-12 2:05 ` Greg KH
2014-07-12 2:09 ` [PATCH] checkpatch: Remove unnecessary + after {8,8} Joe Perches
2014-07-12 2:23 ` Greg KH
2014-08-31 20:58 ` Sören Brinkmann
2014-09-01 16:55 ` [PATCH - resend] " Joe Perches
2014-10-30 11:12 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-10-30 11:15 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-07-12 1:43 ` [PATCH] reformat_with_checkpatch: Add automation to checkpatch Greg KH
2014-07-12 1:50 ` Joe Perches
2014-07-12 1:53 ` Greg KH
2014-07-12 1:57 ` Joe Perches
2014-07-12 2:15 ` Greg KH
2014-07-12 8:08 ` Greg KH
2014-07-12 8:18 ` Greg KH
2014-07-12 10:13 ` Joe Perches
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