Re: [PATCH] RDMA/cma: Fix checkpatch error

[Gal Pressman]

On 12/12/2019 10:49, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 12:26:54PM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 11:16:26AM +0000, Max Hirsch wrote:
>>> When running checkpatch on cma.c the following error was found:
>>
>> I think checkpatch will complain about your patch, did you run it?
> 
> Jason, Doug
> 
> I would like to ask to refrain from accepting checkpatch.pl patches
> which are not part of other large submission. Such standalone cleanups
> do more harm than actual benefit from them for old and more or less
> stable code (e.g. RDMA-CM).

Sounds like a great approach to prevent new developers from contributing code.
You have to start somewhere and checkpatch patches are a good entry point for
such developers, discouraging them will only hurt us in the long term.

Linus had an interesting post on the subject:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/12/20/255