linux-kernel - Re: [x86] is checkpatch.pl broken

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Date:	Tue, 25 Dec 2007 15:48:44 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
CC:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [x86] is checkpatch.pl broken

Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> by doing cleanup of arch/x86/boot/*.[ch] i found that
> checkpatch does ignore obvious things. For example,
> run it over edd.c showed only one warning:
> 
> BTW, is there someone who is already involved in a such
> cleanup to eliminate double effort?
> 

BTW, it's more than a wee bit rude of you to Cc: a bunch of people but 
not the listed maintainer of the piece of code you're claiming to be 
cleaning up.

	-hpa
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