linux-kernel - Re: [PULL -tip] fixed few make headers

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Message-ID: <20090115144934.GA872@elte.hu>
Date:	Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:49:34 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderlinux@...il.com>,
	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...radead.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PULL -tip] fixed few make headers_check warnings


* Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 12:11:34PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > * Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > So when I see "capability.h: extern's make no sense in userspace" the 
> > > perfect approach would be that the whole file was checked.
> > > 
> > > This is a much bigger task that just removing the warning.
> > 
> > The problem is, you just littered the kernel with a ton of warnings and 
> > declared that fixing them is a 'much bigger task'.
> > 
> > It's not good to start projects like this, because they simply never 
> > finish. It's _much_ better to first reach a zero baseline via minimal 
> > fixes, then enforce 'look at the whole thing' for all _NEW_ files and 
> > changes.
> > 
> > That's how we are using checkpatch in the -tip topics, and it's working 
> > very nicely.
> > 
> > Could we please start it like that?
> 
> I would have done such have I had more time to do this stuff. Real life 
> just hit me after vacation finished and deadline approaching.
> 
> I can disable the warnings around -rc7 if we think they are too noisy 
> when we release the next kernel.

they are perfectly fine i think, lets just not do the full approach now 
and reach a zero baseline first. Then perfectionism can start again, at a 
much more manageable flux.

	Ingo
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