linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Staging: greybus: Match alignment with open parenthesis.

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Date:   Sun, 23 Jul 2017 14:54:14 +0200
From:   Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:     Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>,
        Shreeya Patel <shreeya.patel23498@...il.com>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, greybus-dev@...ts.linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: greybus: Match alignment with open parenthesis.

On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 03:10:53PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 10:47:43AM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 02:09:57PM +0530, Shreeya Patel wrote:
> > > Alignment should match with open parenthesis.
> > > This fixes the coding style issue.
> > 
> > No, it need not. This is a choice left up to the author, even if
> > checkpatch happens to complain about it with the --strict option.
> > 
> 
> This is staging code.  Don't try to fight checkpatch.pl in staging...
> You're just making work for everyone else (me) who already just reviewed
> this patch and I don't want to review it a few more times when the next
> person sends the exact same patch.

You can just ignore any greybus patches if you prefer.

I've considered patching checkpatch to drop --strict for at least this
subsystem, but not sure it's worth it.

Johan