On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 05:34:28PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote: > checkpatch.pl is a nice tool to find issues in patches. > Sadly this tool gets more and more abused by various people to create > style cleanups for source files within the kernel. > In order to deal with that bad habit let's remove the --file option > and bring checkpatch.pl back to its original purpose. > > Suggested-by: NeilBrown <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <[email protected]>
Very good idea: Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> You could also make it do: if ($file) { print STDERR "Go find real bugs in the kernel instead!\n"; exit(-1); } if someone supplies --file on the cmdline. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine. -- -- 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/
