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Message-ID: <1285526141.3047.0.camel@cowboy> Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 14:35:41 -0400 From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@....org> To: Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu> Cc: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>, Tracey Dent <tdent48227@...il.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/10] Fs: ext4: namei: fixed file of checkpatch/pl warnings and errors On Sun, 2010-09-26 at 14:23 -0400, Ted Ts'o wrote: > On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 08:36:34AM +0200, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > > > > BTW I wouldn't trust checkpatch so blindly. Also keep in mind checkpatch > > is only a tool and that maintainers have full authority to ignore the > > problems (or "problems") it spews. > > I'm beginning to think we need to have an entry in the kernel newbie's > FAQ warning people that the output of various scripts such as > checkpatch and get_maintainer are not authoratative, and are > hueristics intended to be supplemented by human intelligence. It would actually be quite useful to add a warning in kernelnewbies about this, some people tend to get too carried away :) Davidlohr > > - TEd > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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