linux-kernel - Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [PATCH] checkpatch: Add comment about updating Documentation/CodingStyle

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Date:	Mon, 02 Sep 2013 21:50:23 +0100
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>,
	ksummit-2013-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [PATCH] checkpatch: Add comment about updating Documentation/CodingStyle

Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org> wrote:

> > There are many checkpatch rules (like semicolons) that
> > are not in CodingStyle.
> 
> It's a rule of thumb, not a mandate.  In *general*, checkpatch.pl should
> not be enforcing style rules that aren't documented in CodingStyle.

Except that it becomes a mandate when someone runs it automatically against
every one of your patches and then sends you an email for each patch it finds
a checkpatch niggle against...

David
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