On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If a patch or if a file has a clean _style_, bugs and deeper > structural problems often stand out like a sore thumb. But if the > code is peppered with random style noise, it's a lot harder (for me > at least) to notice real bugs. I can notice bugs in a squeeky clean > code base about 5 times easier than in a noisy codebase. This effect > alone makes checkpatch indispensible for the scheduler and for > arch/x86.
I also appreciate style uniformity in kernel code. My (limited) experience with checkpatch is that most checkpatch complaints are easy to resolve. Bart Van Assche. -- 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/
