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

[Max Hirsch]

I am happy to make a larger/functional change. From what I read,
desired patch scope is proportional to linux community involvement but
if that not how you guys do the infiniband driver that fine. Whats a
feature you guys want but no one is working on yet, or rather where is
such a list kept?

On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 7:10 AM Gal Pressman <galpress@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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