Re: [PATCH] Documentation: checkpatch: Document some more message types

[Joe Perches]

On Mon, 2021-09-27 at 11:43 -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Utkarsh Verma <utkarshverma294@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > Added and documented 3 new message types:
> > - UNNECESSARY_INT
> > - UNSPECIFIED_INT
> > - UNNECESSARY_ELSE
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Utkarsh Verma <utkarshverma294@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 47 insertions(+)
> 
> So...when you send multiple patches with the same subject line that's
> always a bad sign.  We really want a "git --oneline" listing to give a
> good idea of what the patch does, and that depends on more descriptive
> subject lines.
> 
> In this case, something like:
> 
>   docs: checkpatch: add UNNECESSARY/UNSPECIFIED_INT and UNNECESSARY_ELSE
> 
> I can fix up these two patches, but please try to keep this in mind for
> future work.
> 
> (applying the patches now).

The unnecessary_else description isn't particularly good as the
checkpatch output doesn't describe multiple if/else if/else if type
returns where the message should not apply.

For this type of use, the checkpatch message is not necessarily correct
and because it could be a patch context, there's no way for checkpatch
to know if it's correct or not.

	if (foo) {
		...
	} else if (bar) {
		...
		return [val];
	} else {
		...
	}