Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: Add warning for new __packed additions

From: Tom Rini
Date: Thu Feb 27 2014 - 15:33:34 EST


On 02/26/2014 05:04 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-02-25 at 07:30 -0500, Tom Rini wrote:
>> The only intentional differences we have today are adding debug/printf
>> to the list of log functions
>
> That seems fine and trivial to keep current.

Agreed,

>> and pointing people at boards.cfg not
>> CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS,
>
> That seems wrong.
>
> The idea of that message is to fix defects in checkpatch,
> not any other code.
>
> Maybe that could be reworded to
> "See the CHECKPATCH entry in the MAINTAINERS file of linux git"
> or some such.

I've dropped that change now in a re-sync to current checkpatch.pl.
Happy to pull in a re-wording of this part from a near-future resync
with the kernel :)

--
Tom
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