linux-kernel - Re: [patch 22/28] macintosh: Remove BKL from ans-lcd

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0910110125000.4921@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Sun, 11 Oct 2009 01:27:24 +0200 (CEST)
From:	John Kacur <jkacur@...hat.com>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Vincent Sanders <vince@...tec.co.uk>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org
Subject: Re: [patch 22/28] macintosh: Remove BKL from ans-lcd



On Sun, 11 Oct 2009, Alan Cox wrote:

> > There were 4 checkpatch errors on this patch, all of the type
> > ERROR: spaces required around that '=' (ctx:WxO)
> > #1466: FILE: drivers/macintosh/ans-lcd.c:112:
> > +			ret =-EACCES;
> 
> Here's a suggestion. If a few spaces bug you that much then instead of
> complaining about it and posting checkpatch results deal with the file
> itself. 
> 
> Wait until the patch goes in and send a follow up patch that fixes up the
> file to fit codingstyle. There's no point whining about the bits a patch
> touches when the file wasn't in that format before, but if you've got
> nothing better to do then doing a pass over the whole file *is* useful.
> 
> (Plus it gets a patch to your name ;))
> 
> Checkpatch whines on files that simple don't follow style are usually
> best ignored because they make the file formatting less internally
> consistent.
> 
Thanks Alan, I was sincerely debatting whether to send this because I know 
that checkpatch can be annoying - but on the other hand, I thought it 
prudent to run it since I was claiming to have reviewed all of those 
patches.

I like your suggestion though - next time, I won't send the mail, since 
since the folks submitting these patches are more than capable of checking 
that kind of thing themselves, and if I feel it's important enough, I'll 
follow up with a trivial style patch.

Cheers!

John
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