We discourage sending trivial patches to clean up checkpatch warnings. There are other tools which lead to patches of similarly low value like some coccicheck warnings. The warnings are useful for new code but fixing them in the existing code base is a waste of review time.
Broaden the example given in the doc a little bit. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]> --- CC: [email protected] CC: [email protected] CC: [email protected] --- Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst b/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst index e1755610b4bc..989192421cc9 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst @@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ Clean-up patches Netdev discourages patches which perform simple clean-ups, which are not in the context of other work. For example: -* Addressing ``checkpatch.pl`` warnings +* Addressing ``checkpatch.pl``, and other trivial coding style warnings * Addressing :ref:`Local variable ordering<rcs>` issues * Conversions to device-managed APIs (``devm_`` helpers) -- 2.50.1
