Re: Alpha Checkpatch Errors

From: Nick Krause
Date: Thu Jul 17 2014 - 23:24:47 EST


On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 11:21 PM, Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-07-17 at 23:01 -0400, Nick Krause wrote:
>> 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
>
> Nick, are you human?
>
Yes I am human. Now thinking about it we need it to test for staging.
Stupid idea.
Nick
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