From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org,
Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] checkkpatch (in)sanity ?
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 22:17:01 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160829191701.GL4129@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160829191020.GB27600@cloud>
On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 12:10:20PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 10:06:18PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > I would like a couple changes which you know already:
> >
> > 1) Get rid of PREFER_ETHER_ADDR_COPY and similar because the people who
> > send checkpatch.pl fixes aren't qualified to say when it's legal or not
> > so they sometimes introduce bugs.
>
> I do think we should have *something* that catches such things.
> Perhaps not checkpatch.pl, though. Perhaps a compiler plugin that
> generates additional warnings, and can perhaps use more global
> information to determine legality?
Perhaps. But that shouldn't delay us from deleting this code which just
encourages newbies to introduce bugs.
regards,
dan carpenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-29 19:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-27 20:40 checkkpatch (in)sanity ? Joe Perches
2016-08-28 1:06 ` Levin, Alexander
2016-08-28 1:42 ` Joe Perches
2016-08-28 2:20 ` Joe Perches
2016-08-28 2:47 ` Levin, Alexander
2016-08-28 17:15 ` Joe Perches
2016-08-28 17:59 ` Greg KH
2016-08-28 22:37 ` Levin, Alexander
2016-08-28 23:20 ` Joe Perches
2016-08-29 2:22 ` Levin, Alexander
2016-08-29 8:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-08-29 7:15 ` [Ksummit-discuss] " Alexandre Belloni
2016-08-29 9:01 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-08-29 12:47 ` Joe Perches
2016-08-29 17:16 ` Josh Triplett
2016-08-29 17:41 ` Joe Perches
2016-08-29 17:46 ` Luck, Tony
2016-08-29 18:01 ` Joe Perches
2016-08-29 18:47 ` Joe Perches
2016-08-29 19:08 ` Josh Triplett
2016-08-29 21:07 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-08-29 11:15 ` Kalle Valo
2016-08-29 12:30 ` Joe Perches
2016-08-29 18:01 ` Kalle Valo
2016-08-29 19:00 ` Joe Perches
2016-08-29 21:00 ` [Ksummit-discuss] " Arnd Bergmann
2016-08-28 7:56 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2016-08-28 9:59 ` Julia Lawall
2016-08-28 19:52 ` Joe Perches
2016-08-28 20:35 ` Jiri Kosina
2016-08-28 21:24 ` Dennis Kaarsemaker
2016-08-28 21:57 ` Joe Perches
2016-08-29 19:06 ` Dan Carpenter
2016-08-29 19:10 ` Josh Triplett
2016-08-29 19:17 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2016-08-29 19:34 ` Joe Perches
2016-08-29 19:21 ` Joe Perches
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