linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] checkpatch: check for function calls with struct or union on stack

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Date:   Thu, 26 Jul 2018 12:28:07 -0700
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] checkpatch: check for function calls with struct or
 union on stack

On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 12:25:33 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> I'll give it a spin, see how noisy it is.

Actually, I would prefer if the message, changelog and title
used the term "passed by value".  It's a more familiar term
and it is possible for a passed-by-value aggregate to in fact 
be passed in registers.