Re: [PATCH] Remove errors caught by checkpatch.pl inkernel/kallsyms.c

[Ingo Molnar]

* Stefan Richter <stefanr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > We routinely mention Sparse, lockdep, Coverity, Coccinelle, kmemleak, 
> > ftrace, kmemcheck and other tools as well when it motives to fix a bug 
> > or uncleanliness. [...] It is absolutely fine to
> > mention checkpatch when it catches uncleanliness in code that already 
> > got merged. I dont understand your point.
> 
> I wrote "don't mention checkpatch" but I really meant "think about what
> the effect of the patch is and describe this".

Are you arguing that in all those other cases the tools should not be 
mentioned either? I dont think that position is tenable.

	Ingo
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