Re: Merging of completely unreviewed drivers

From: Alexey Dobriyan
Date: Thu Feb 21 2008 - 17:58:56 EST


On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 02:43:15PM -0800, 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?
> :)

Sorry, I'm not touching it with an eigthy six foot pole. :^)
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