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?
