linux-kernel - Re: [patch] checkpatch.pl: revert wrong --file message

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Message-Id: <200802181107.27731.ak@suse.de>
Date:	Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:07:27 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Cc:	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.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

On Saturday 16 February 2008 11:27:33 Pekka Enberg wrote:
> 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.

Just use --file-force then. That will shut it up.

-Andi
 


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