netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] rds: Add runchecks.cfg for net/rds

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Date:   Sat, 16 Dec 2017 09:45:25 -0800
From:   Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:     Knut Omang <knut.omang@...cle.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, rds-devel@....oracle.com,
        Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] rds: Add runchecks.cfg for net/rds

On Sat, 16 Dec 2017 15:42:29 +0100
Knut Omang <knut.omang@...cle.com> wrote:

> +
> +# Important to fix from a quality perspective:
> +#
> +except AVOID_BUG connection.c ib.c ib_cm.c ib_rdma.c ib_recv.c ib_ring.c ib_send.c info.c loop.c message.c
> +except AVOID_BUG rdma.c recv.c send.c stats.c tcp_recv.c transport.c
> +except MEMORY_BARRIER ib_recv.c send.c tcp_send.c
> +except WAITQUEUE_ACTIVE cong.c ib_rdma.c ib_ring.c ib_send.c
> +except UNNECESSARY_ELSE bind.c ib_cm.c
> +except MACRO_ARG_PRECEDENCE connection.c ib.h rds.h
> +except MACRO_ARG_REUSE rds.h
> +except ALLOC_SIZEOF_STRUCT cong.c ib.c ib_cm.c loop.c message.c rdma.c
> +except UNCOMMENTED_DEFINITION ib_cm.c
> +
> +# Code simplification:
> +#
> +except ALLOC_WITH_MULTIPLY ib.c
> +except PREFER_PR_LEVEL ib_cm.c ib_recv.c ib_send.c rdma_transport.c threads.c transport.c
> +except UNNECESSARY_ELSE ib_fmr.c
> +except UNNECESSARY_PARENTHESES ib_rdma.c rdma.c recv.c send.c
> +except PRINTK_RATELIMITED ib_frmr.c
> +except EMBEDDED_FUNCTION_NAME ib_rdma.c
> +
> +# Style and readability:
> +#
> +except BRACES ib_cm.c ib_rdma.c ib_recv.c send.c transport.c
> +except OOM_MESSAGE ib.c tcp.c
> +except LONG_LINE_STRING ib.c ib_recv.c ib_send.c
> +except FUNCTION_ARGUMENTS ib.h ib_mr.h rds.h tcp.h
> +except OPEN_ENDED_LINE recv.c ib_recv.c
> +
> +# Candidates to leave as exceptions (don't fix):
> +except MULTIPLE_ASSIGNMENTS ib_send.c
> +except LONG_LINE_STRING connection.c
> +except OPEN_BRACE connection.c
> +

Why start letting subsystems have a free-pass?
Also this would mean that new patches to IB would continue the bad habits.