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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>, Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
	Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com>,
	Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: conntrack: fix -Wformat
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2020 08:45:34 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e9edd473b8bfc576b8b274c64fd74d021bc4f4d0.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <844b0184-a74b-4d0a-8470-69d58323391a@redhat.com>

On Thu, 2020-12-03 at 06:39 -0800, Tom Rix wrote:
> I agree if it can be done in checkpatch it should.
> It is good to have multiple passes on cleaning.

true
 
> checkpatch is best at fixing new problems,
> clang-tidy-fix is best at fixing old problems.

checkpatch is a set of brainless regexes that operates on
incomplete information.  It's not a real parser nor compiler.

It's really only useful as a way to avoid trivial style issues.


  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-03 16:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-07  7:55 [PATCH] netfilter: conntrack: fix -Wformat Nick Desaulniers
2020-11-07 10:32 ` Joe Perches
2020-11-08  7:34   ` Lukas Bulwahn
2020-11-08 10:10     ` Joe Perches
2020-11-10 22:00   ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-11-10 22:04     ` Joe Perches
2020-11-10 22:06       ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-12-02 22:34       ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-12-03  0:46         ` Tom Rix
2020-12-03  7:26           ` Lukas Bulwahn
2020-12-03 13:43             ` Miguel Ojeda
2020-12-03 14:40               ` Lukas Bulwahn
2020-12-03 14:39             ` Tom Rix
2020-12-03 16:45               ` Joe Perches [this message]
2020-12-13 19:21         ` Tom Rix
2020-12-13 23:25           ` Joe Perches
2020-12-13 23:29             ` Tom Rix
2020-11-07 17:52 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-11-09 15:43 ` kernel test robot

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