On Feb 21 2008 14:43, Greg KH wrote: >On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 01:33:03AM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 01:14:55PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> > Quite frankly, I've several times been *this* close (holds up fingers so >> > you can't even see between them) to just remove checkpatch entirely. >> >> Agrh! What stopped you?! >> >> > I'm personally of the opinion that a lot of checkpatch "fixes" are >> > anything but. That mainly concerns fixing overlong lines (where the >> > "fixed" version is usually worse than the original), but it's been true >> > for some other warnings too. >> >> Speaking of driver, could authors please comment all those barrier() >> calls and remove trailing "return;" at the end of void functions. > >Why don't you make a patch to checkpatch.pl for those types of things? >:)
checkpatch would never allow a patch to patch checkpatch. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/