On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 03:39:45PM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em Mon, 2 Sep 2013 11:19:01 -0700
> Josh Triplett <[email protected]> escreveu:
> 
> > Patches to checkpatch that add new style rules should also change
> > Documentation/CodingStyle to document those new style rules; add a
> > comment to that effect to the top of scripts/checkpatch.pl.
> 
> Well, you forgot to c/c LKML on this patch; I think that KS2013 is not the
> proper list to review this patch ;)

My mail went to LKML; it had:
To: [email protected]

> > Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 ++++
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> > index 2ee9eb7..ba65ea6 100755
> > --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> > +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> > @@ -4,6 +4,10 @@
> >  # (c) 2007,2008, Andy Whitcroft <[email protected]> (new conditions, test 
> > suite)
> >  # (c) 2008-2010 Andy Whitcroft <[email protected]>
> >  # Licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL License version 2
> > +#
> > +# This file does not define the kernel coding style; 
> > Documentation/CodingStyle
> > +# does.  If you add a new style test to this file, add the corresponding 
> > style
> > +# rule it enforces to Documentation/CodingStyle.
> >  
> 
> Agreed with that. I would also add another comment there: "in case of
> conflicts between checkpatch.pl and Documentation/CodingStyle, the latter
> takes precedence."

Good point.

> Anyway,
> 
> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]>

Thanks.

- Josh Triplett
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