Re: [PATCH] Revert "scripts/coccinelle: Find PTR_ERR() to %pe candidates"

[Johan Hovold]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 04:36:46PM +0200, Gal Pressman wrote:
> On 30/10/2025 16:06, Johan Hovold wrote:

> > It still generates noise and extra work for already overworked
> > maintainers that would need to explain over and over again why they are
> > rejecting patches that appears to fix "warnings". Some will just take
> > the patches, which leads to inconsistencies (as only a handful of
> > printks will be converted) and a push for a style which again only some
> > people prefer.
> 
> There's the subsystem maintainer "rules" documentation in
> Documentation/process/maintainer-*.rst which can document these kinds of
> stuff.

There's already too many rules in there and I guess not many people
actually read it so that doesn't really scale.

Johan