linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: allow single space before labels

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Date:	Mon, 18 Oct 2010 20:32:32 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>
Cc:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: allow single space before labels

On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 14:21 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:58, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 10:54 -0400, Ted Ts'o wrote:
> >> Note that there is absolutely nothing about how labels should be
> >> indented in CodingStyle at all, and I very much resist code
> >> straightjackets being imposed by checkpatch.pl implementors.
> >>
> >> Can we please stop this nonsense?
> >
> > 1) ignoring checkpatch over taste is good
> > 2) by 1) its impossible to get checkpatch right
> > 3) therefore pure checkpatch patches are nonsense
> 
> sounds like an ACK for Joe's patch

No its quite the reverse, by acking joe's patch I loose checkpatch
functionality I like.

There are checks I don't really like, for those I simply ignore its
output, I suggest others do the same.
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