linux-kernel - Re: Merging of completely unreviewed drivers

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Date:	Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:43:15 -0800
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>,
	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>,
	Glenn Streiff <gstreiff@...Effect.com>,
	Faisal Latif <flatif@...Effect.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, general@...ts.openfabrics.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Merging of completely unreviewed drivers

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 01:33:03AM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 01:14:55PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Quite frankly, I've several times been *this* close (holds up fingers so 
> > you can't even see between them) to just remove checkpatch entirely.
> 
> Agrh! What stopped you?!
> 
> > I'm personally of the opinion that a lot of checkpatch "fixes" are 
> > anything but. That mainly concerns fixing overlong lines (where the 
> > "fixed" version is usually worse than the original), but it's been true 
> > for some other warnings too.
> 
> Speaking of driver, could authors please comment all those barrier()
> calls and remove trailing "return;" at the end of void functions.

Why don't you make a patch to checkpatch.pl for those types of things?
:)

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