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Message-ID: <84144f020802160227u59c9959emb905808cc7141f2b@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:27:33 +0200
From: "Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To: "Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: "Andi Kleen" <ak@...e.de>, "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Andy Whitcroft" <andyw@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] checkpatch.pl: revert wrong --file message
Hi,
On Feb 16, 2008 12:18 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
> People, who do cleanups - I'm not talking about running lindent here -
> read through the code while they fix it up.
>
> Actually they find bugs that way or at least come up with useful
> questions about code which is not obvious in the first place.
>
> Discouraging such cleanups with a pretty offensive warning is
> counterproductive.
Well, it's not just about cleanup patches submitted by "newbies". I
use checkpatch for development too and the warning is real PITA for
that.
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