Re: [PATCH v4 72/73] xfs: Convert mru cache to XArray

[Joe Perches]

On Tue, 2017-12-12 at 08:43 +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 09, 2017 at 09:00:18AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Sat, 2017-12-09 at 09:36 +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > > 	1. Using lockdep_set_novalidate_class() for anything other
> > > 	than device->mutex will throw checkpatch warnings. Nice. (*)
> > []
> > > (*) checkpatch.pl is considered mostly harmful round here, too,
> > > but that's another rant....
> > 
> > How so?
> 
> Short story is that it barfs all over the slightly non-standard
> coding style used in XFS.
[]
> This sort of stuff is just lowest-common-denominator noise - great
> for new code and/or inexperienced developers, but not for working
> with large bodies of existing code with slightly non-standard
> conventions.

Completely reasonable.  Thanks.

Do you get many checkpatch submitters for fs/xfs?

If so, could probably do something about adding
a checkpatch file flag to the directory or equivalent.

Maybe add something like:

fs/xfs/.checkpatch

where the contents turn off most everything