linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -mm] Introduce strtol_check

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Message-Id: <20070731120220.62a28442.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:02:20 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Satyam Sharma <satyam@...radead.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] Introduce strtol_check_range()

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:04:10 +0530 (IST)
Satyam Sharma <satyam@...radead.org> wrote:

> [ checkpatch.pl doesn't particularly like this patch, but I wanted to be
>   consistent with the rest of lib/vsprintf.c and include/linux/kernel.h. ]

I tend to think that it isn't worth being consistent with wrong stuff - it's
just more things for people to fix up one day.  Yes, you introduce a mixture
of right and wrong, but that makes the wrong stand out more ;)
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