Re: [PATCH v5 1/8] counter: Introduce the Generic Counter interface

From: Joe Perches
Date: Sun Mar 25 2018 - 13:04:24 EST


On Sun, 2018-03-25 at 17:56 +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Mar 2018 00:46:10 -0700
> Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 2018-03-24 at 17:33 +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> > > checkpatch.pl --strict (but take into account some of the warnings will
> > > be silly so don't fix them all).
> >
> > What checkpatch output is silly?
>
> Sorry - bad word choice.

No worries. Just checking.

> It guides you to where you should look very
> well, but sometimes the patch author should consider the warning and
> decide to ignore it.

Very true. It's a brainless tool and all who use
it should seriously consider ignoring its output
whenever they deem appropriate.