Re: Alpha Checkpatch Errors

[Nick Krause]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 6:17 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
I understand how about checkpatch. We should remove the -f option as I
agree it gets used too much.
Sorry Nick
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