Re: Alpha Checkpatch Errors

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Thu Jul 17 2014 - 18:18:50 EST


On Thu, 17 Jul 2014, Nick Krause wrote:

> Hey Richard and other Maintainers,
> I am wondering about cleaning up the cleanpatch errors for alpha, as
> I am hitting a lot of in the arch/alpha directory.
> It would be nice if I got a list of files that still need coding style
> cleanup as this may be of nice to cleanup :).

Nick, can you please stop that nonsense? checkpatch.pl is a tool to
check PATCHES and not to apply random nonsense on existing code. See
also:

https://lwn.net/Articles/605597/

Joe, can you please finally remove the -f option from checkpatch.pl ?

Thanks,

tglx
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