linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] SCRIPTS: s/should/must/ for all ERRORs

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Message-ID: <m3y6izl9e8.fsf@intrepid.localdomain>
Date:	Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:01:19 +0100
From:	Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>
To:	Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@...il.com>
Cc:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...o99.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] SCRIPTS: s/should/must/ for all ERRORs

Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@...il.com> writes:

> Personally, I feel that warnings are suggestions and errors are hard
> limits,

This is technically impossible - humans are much smarter than the simple
checkpatch script and still every one of us was proven wrong, many times.

These hard limits are not that necessary, though - a fair dose of
flexibility and common sense is an advantage.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa
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